She decided to speak, to recount her 54 days of captivity in the hands of Hamas. Mia Shem, the young Franco-Israeli kidnapped on October 7 during the attacks committed during the Supernova festival in Israel, gave her first television interview Thursday, December 28 in the evening, on the country’s two largest channels. She claims to have been mistreated. His story sends chills down your spine.
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With our special correspondent in Jerusalem, Hajera Mohammad
Pale face, dark circles around her eyes, listless look: Mia Shem is sitting facing the camera, her right arm still bandaged. She had been injured during her kidnapping. She explains having spent 54 days of captivity at the home of a Hamas member and his family:
“ Locked in a dark room, speaking is forbidden. You must not be seen, not be heard, you are hidden. There is a terrorist who watches you 24 hours a day, seven days a week. He rapes you with his eyes. And of course there is the fear of being raped. I was in his house, his wife was outside the room with the children. That’s the only reason he didn’t rape me. »
If the 21-year-old young woman speaks today, it is to tell the truth, her truth with very strong words: “ It was important for me to tell the truth about the people who live in Gaza, who they really are and what I went through. I experienced a holocaust. They are all terrorists. »
In the excerpts broadcast, Mia Shem also expresses her feeling of guilt since her release with this question that haunts her: why her and not the others?
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