Released hostage Mia Schem says she was held in Gaza hospital, operated on without painkillers

Released hostage Mia Schem speaks to Channel 12 about her captivity in Gaza in a preview clip from an interview scheduled to air on December 29, 2023. (Screenshot, Channel 12, used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
Released hostage Mia Schem speaks to Channel 12 about her captivity in Gaza in a preview clip from an interview scheduled to air on December 29, 2023. (Screenshot, Channel 12, used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Released hostage Mia Schem says she spent three days in a Gaza hospital with her hand stretched and tied to a piece of plastic after she was shot in the arm and seized by Hamas from the Supernova festival on October 7.

In a preview clip of an interview scheduled to air on TV’s Channel 12 this evening, Schem, 21, says after she arrived in Gaza, she spent three days lying in a room in a hospital before they moved her to an operating room, where she underwent a procedure with no anesthetic or painkillers.

“I saw the surgeon, I didn’t see his face,” she says. “He looked at me and said ‘You’re not going to go home alive.'”

Schem was released from captivity in Gaza on the final day of a week-long ceasefire in late November.

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