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Mia Schem had been held hostage in Gaza for 3 days when, she stated, she underwent surgical procedure for a gunshot wound she sustained in Hamas\u2019s assault on Israel. For days afterward \u2014 compelled to share a room together with her captor \u2014 she acquired no painkillers and needed to exchange her personal bandages. <\/p>\n
The account by Ms. Schem, who has talked about her 55 days in captivity with two tv stations and in a photograph essay printed within the newspaper Yediot Ahronot, has touched a specific nerve in Israel.<\/p>\n
It echoes those of other hostages<\/a>: an absence of meals and water and minimal entry to medical care. However her interviews and written account, which couldn’t be independently confirmed, have supplied essentially the most detailed take a look at what life was like in captivity. Her household didn’t conform to an interview with The New York Occasions.<\/p>\n Ms. Schem, a 21-year-old Israeli French citizen from Shoham, Israel, was kidnapped by Hamas after fleeing the Nova music pageant through the Oct. 7 terrorist assault that killed about 1,200 folks in southern Israel. Early within the battle, the group launched a video of her in captivity, the primary on any of the greater than 230 hostages.<\/p>\n In her recollections since her launch, Ms. Schem has described being held in a household\u2019s dwelling in Gaza in a room together with her captor, and along with his spouse and youngsters within the adjoining room. Her solely time alone was within the rest room, the place she would often stick her tattooed fingers out of the window within the hopes of being acknowledged, she wrote in Yediot Ahronot.<\/p>\n At some point, as Ms. Schem struggled with a knot in her hair, her captor approached with scissors, she wrote. She screamed at him, telling him she would kind it out herself, which ended up taking her nearly two weeks due to her injured arm, she stated.<\/p>\n Ms. Schem advised Israeli tv that some days, her captor\u2019s spouse \u201cwould deliver him meals,\u201d with out bringing any for Ms. Schem.<\/p>\n \u201cThere have been days when she wouldn\u2019t let me eat,\u201d Ms. Schem stated.<\/p>\n She advised Israeli tv that at one level her captor referred to as her over to observe footage on tv of her mom talking at a information convention, saying he did so \u201cto harm me,\u201d however that she however drew power from seeing her mom.<\/p>\n One other day, her captor was upset after his mates have been killed in an Israeli bombing, she stated, including that she consoled him solely so as \u201cto play the sport.\u201d Different instances, the bombing was shut by.<\/p>\n \u201cThe home windows broke within the dwelling I used to be in,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n In the previous few days earlier than her launch, Ms. Schem stated, she was taken to tunnels almost 200 ft beneath the bottom the place it was exhausting to breathe.<\/p>\n In her hostage video launched by Hamas, Ms. Schem pleaded to go dwelling and described present process surgical procedure. She advised Israeli tv that she had been instructed to say that she was being cared for.<\/p>\n \u201cYou do what you\u2019re advised,\u201d she stated in describing the video. \u201cYou\u2019re afraid to die.\u201d<\/p>\n