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.