Freed Hamas hostage cant heal until all remaining captives return home to their families: This is my life

A former Israeli hostage — who underwent surgery in Gaza at the hands of a veterinarian while she was held captive — by Hamas is in New York on a mission.Tattoo artist Mia Schem who holds French and Israeli citizenship, told The Post she can’t find peace until the remaining 101 hostages return home.“I must fight for the rest of the hostages – this is my life,” said Schem, 22, who was released Nov.30, 2023 as part of the first hostage deal after spending 54 horrifying days in the terrorists’ hands.

“I feel that I have a mission – to speak, to tell the world my story, for the other hostages who can’t,” she said.“And to be the voice for the girls who are still there.”“My body is here,” she lamented, “but my heart is still there in Gaza.

My soul is still in Gaza.”Schem and her friend Elia Toledano were among those kidnapped on Oct.7 from the Tribe of Nova music festival.

Schem was also shot in the right arm.In the first video released by Hamas a week later, she was shown with bandages wrapped around her arm after a three-hour surgery.

During her captivity, the wound radiated with pain, Schem said, but her abductors didn’t lift a finger to help her.“They didn’t give me medicines for the pain – nothing,” she said.“My hand didn’t connect to my body and she didn’t help me,” Schem said of her captor’s wife.

“I think, she’s a woman, there would be humanity.”At one point, her captor brought her out of her dark room just so she could see her mom pleading on television for her daughter’s return.“He told me, ‘Come look, this is the last time you see her.

You’re not going back to Israel,” Schem recalled, adding she was routinely told to study the Koran.“They told me all the time, ‘You will stay here, you will get married here.’ They tried to break my spirit, to make me weak inside.” Morning Report and Evening Update: Your source for today's top stories Please provide a val...