Freed hostage Mia Schem says she was kept in cage with 5 other women still held captive

Freed hostage Mia Schem says that she was held in captivity in Gaza inside a cage with a number of other women who are still held hostage.

After 50 days in captivity, “I was put in a cage, with no air or light,” says Schem in Hebrew at an event in New York hosted by the Israeli consulate last night to commemorate the October 7 attack, in video published by Ynet.

“There I met five young women, each with their own horrific abduction story,” she adds. She was in the cage for five days, she says, during which “I told them we would soon get out,” says Schem, who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival and freed as part of a weeklong truce deal in late November 2023.

“It’s been a year… but my heart remains captive in Gaza with five young women who are still held there, tortured and abused, with no air, in the depths of hell,” she says.