The 21-year-old French-Israeli woman vanished Oct. 7 from a music festival attacked by militants. International leaders joined her family in urging for her to be let go.
The mother of Mia Shem holds up a photo of her daughter, who was kidnapped by Hamas militants, at a news conference in Tel Aviv on Tuesday. Keren Shem got her first glimpse of her missing child when everyone else did. She saw her daughter, Mia Shem, in a hostage video Monday — the first time Hamas publicly released a clip of one of the roughly 200 hostages the militants are holding in the Gaza Strip.The mother screamed and fell to the floor when she saw Mia’s face on her TV.
Holding a photo of her daughter, Keren Shem was flanked by two of Mia’s brothers, who also called for the return of their sister.The family and its spokespeople have transliterated their names as both Shem and Schem but used the former spelling on place cards at the news conference Tuesday. The mother of Mia Schem, a French-Israeli hostage in Gaza, urged world leaders on Oct. 17 to bring home all captives seized in the Oct. 7 attack in Israel. that the hostages held by Hamas face the “same danger and conditions” as people living in Gaza. Hamas has also claimed that some of the hostages have been killed by Israeli strikes, a claim that could not be confirmed.
Since the day the festival was attacked, Keren Shem said she’s barely slept. She said her daughter loves to cook and make her friends and family happy.
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