Hamas release footage of 21-year-old Israeli hostage Mia Shem

Hamas militants have released a video of a 21-year-old Israeli-French hostage pleading for help as her Mum reveals why they wanted it shown. See the video.

Barbaric Hamas militants have released a video of a 21-year-old Israeli-French hostage being held captive in Gaza as they reveal they are holding 255 “guests”.

Mia Shem, speaking in Hebrew, identifies herself in the Hamas post to Telegram social media platform and speaks and someone off camera tends to a wound to her arm.

“I name is Mia Shem, I’m 21-years-old from Shoham. Right now, I’m in Gaza. I came back early on Saturday morning from a party in the Sderot area. I was seriously injured in the hand. They brought me to Gaza, and they took me to the hospital here for three hours.

“They’ve been taking care of me, providing medication. I’m just asking that you bring me back home as soon as possible to my family, my parents, my siblings. Please get me out of here as quickly as possible.”

Hamas released a video of a 21-year-old French-Israeli hostage Maya Sham, who is being held in Gaza.

Her family agreed for the video to be released publicly to the world saying they were “happy” to see her alive. It was not clear when or where the footage was filmed but she had not been seen since attending the Tribe of Nova music festival where 260 revellers were murdered.

The video’s metadata suggests it was filmed in the past six days.

Ms Schem’s mother Keren, a single mother of four, speaking prior to the video’s release said she last spoke to her daughter on October 6, the day before the attack.

She rang her daughter frantically to no avail.

“I couldn’t stop calling,” Keren Schem said. “I kept telling myself, it’s OK it was a party with thousands of people. What are the chances my daughter was hurt? I was trying to be rational, but I had no idea of the scale of the attack. I couldn’t have guessed it was a massacre.”

Hamas released a video of a 21-year-old French-Israeli hostage Mia Shem, who is being held in Gaza.

It appeared Mia escaped the festival in a car with friends but was chased down with the tyres shot out.

The last comms was a Whatsapp text she sent a friend saying “they are shooting at us come save us”.

Keren Schem now begged: “please bring my baby back alive”.

The short hostage video clip release is the latest in the psychological mind games Hamas has been playing, releasing taunts and threats on video through social media. Last week they released a video of armed militants playing with an Israeli baby and toddler although that too was not clear when it was filmed.

Israel Defence Force spokesman Daniel Hagari revealed Israeli forces had been operating “on both sides of the border” to find any trace of the hostages.

“We are scanning every possible area,” he said, adding the IDF was in contact with families affected. “We share the pain of these families and continue to provide them with all the information at our disposal.”

Mia Schem, 21, was kidnapped by Hamas while attending the Tribe of Nova festival.

Hamas spokesman said the 250 hostages being held including high ranking Israeli soldiers and dozens of foreigners could be released if Israel agreed to a prisoner swap for 600 Palestinian men and women being held in Israeli jails.

He said 22 hostages had already been killed by Israeli air strikes and they risked more dead if they continued.

The video release of Ms Sham is the latest in the psychological mind games Hamas has been playing, releasing taunts and threats on video through social media.

Her family in Israel agreed for the video to be released publicly to the world saying they were “happy” to see her alive.

Israel Defence Force spokesman Daniel Hagari revealed Israeli forces had been operating “on both sides of the border” to find any trace of the hostages.

“We are scanning every possible area,” he said, adding the IDF was in contact with families affected.

“We share the pain of these families and continue to provide them with all the information at our disposal.”

Dozens of people have been abducted by Hamas attackers and their loved ones are sharing their images on a wall in Tel Aviv. Picture: Getty

Earlier, 199 people were confirmed to have been abducted by Hamas in the surprise assault that left 1400 dead and sparked a devastating Israel-Gaza conflict, the Israeli military said on Monday.

Those kidnapped come from a variety of nations. Here is what we know so far:

- United States: Multiple abducted, missing, but a total number unconfirmed.

- Thailand: The foreign ministry said 17 are thought to have been abducted.

- France: Thirteen remain missing, Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said Sunday on her visit to Israel.

- Russia: At least one Russian citizen who also holds Israeli citizenship is being held hostage in Gaza by Hamas, the embassy said.

- Nepal: Seven Nepali citizens are unaccounted for.

- Argentina: Argentina’s foreign ministry confirmed that 15 were missing.

- Ukraine: Nine missing.

A devastated man after his home was bombed during Israeli raids in the southern Gaza Strip.

- UK: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told British parliament on Monday 10 are missing, he said, some of whom are also feared to be dead. Two British teens are feared kidnapped in the Hamas attack on Israel: Sisters Noiya, 13, and Yahel, 16, seem to have been taken from Kibbutz Be’eri near Gaza, after their mother was killed, BBC reports.

- Canada: Three missing

- China: China’s foreign ministry said Monday that two Chinese nationals are missing.

- Romania: One missing.

- Austria: Two missing.

- Belarus: One missing.

- Philippines: Three missing.

- Peru: Five missing.

- Chile: One missing.

- Portugal: Four missing.

Palestinians, some with foreign passports hoping to cross into Egypt and others waiting for aid wait at the Rafah crossing in the southern Gaza Strip. Picture: AFP

- Turkey: One missing. Additionally, Turkey’s top diplomat on Monday discussed the possibility of the release of all the hostages during a phone call with Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, his office said.

- Germany: The German government reported Saturday “eight known cases” of hostages being held in Gaza by Hamas. The foreign ministry said later that each case could include several people, such as members of the same family.

- Mexico: Two Mexicans, a man and a woman, have been taken hostage.

- Italy: Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said that three Israeli-Italians were missing.

- Paraguay: Two Paraguayan nationals who had been living in Israel are missing, the government said.

- Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka’s ambassador to Israel said Tuesday that two nationals, a 48-year-old man and a 49-year-old woman, were missing.

- Tanzania: Tanzania’s ambassador to Israel told AFP two Tanzanian nationals were missing.

KIDNAPPED: ISRAEL’S NEW WAILING WALL

The faces all tell the same grim story.

Some are smiling, and have clearly been taken on holiday, others with family members are simple portraits.

But they all are victims of the terror attack that has plunged Israel into a hostage crisis that gets more desperate by the day.

The pictures are of people, mainly Israeli’s, who have been lost amid the carnage of the Hamas attack.

The Islamist group has threatened to kill its hostages one by one if civilian targets are bombed without advance warning.

Under a red and white banner that reads ‘Kidnapped’ is the missing person’s name and a description of them and a QR code.

Images of Israeli hostages snatched by the Palestinian militant group Hamas plastered on a wall during a rally outside the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv. Picture: AFP

People have come in their hundreds to stick them onto the wall of the outside the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv.

Hamas-led attackers who invaded southern Israel last week killed more than 1,300 people and abducted as many as 200 people - including babies, young children, women and the elderly - and took them to Gaza.

Some are grouped into families - with devastating details about how many loved ones have been taken from the same family.

Michal Caspi are among those who have placed a picture on the wall in the hope it will help reconnect them with a kidnapped family member, Alon Ohel, 22, who hasn’t been seen since he tried to save others at the Re’im music festival.

Fliers and signs with the names and faces of people kidnapped outside the Israeli Defence Ministry. Picture: Getty

“Alon was at the party and hid in a shelter, and was among the ones who threw back grenades that Hamas tossed into the shelters to kill partygoers,” Ms Caspi said.

“One of his friends woke up at Rambam [Hospital in Haifa] and said that he saw Alon taken alive by terrorists,” she told the Times of Israel

She is worried about the IDF’s plan to bomb Gaza targets despite so many people being held hostage in the area.

Other images are terrifying shots of the abductions themselves.

One is of Adina Moshe, 72, as she is being taken on a motorbike between two Hamas fighters.

Her head is held high, but her family said she looks terrified.

“First, I couldn’t look at it because it’s so shocking, you can see the kidnappers who killed her husband and put her on a motorcycle … and she has to hold onto him so she doesn’t fall,” Moshe’s niece Einav Moshe Barda told CNN at the wall that has been dubbed “the wailing wall for abducted Israeli’s”.

Einav Moshebarda, the niece of Adina, who was kidnapped and is seen in a video being taken, reacts after telling her family's story. Picture: Getty

Ms Moshebarda with the sign with Adina’s picture that was taken as she was abducted. Picture: Getty

As the days go on, there is also a growing anger at Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for failing to see the attacks and the hostage crisis the country is now facing.

Mr Netanyahu has appointed a former IDF general,Gal Hirsch, to be the government’s hostage co-ordinator.

Mr Hirsch vowed his team was “investigating every piece of information” to locate every person that has been abducted.

An FBI negotiator is also on site, with several US citizens among those Hamas is holding, but National Security Council chief, Tzachi Hanegbi, said there won’t be any negotiations “with an enemy that we have promised to eradicate from the surface of the earth”.

The wall has become a meeting place for desperate family members, and has attracted protests against the Netanyahu government. Picture: Getty

Some members of the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, a group of family members, former soldiers,social media professionals and doctors believe that means the hostages are doomed. 

“This purely and simply means that the Israeli government has chosen a strategy of abandoning the captives and missing,” Group member Ronen Tzur said.

- With AFP

Originally published as Hamas release footage of 21-year-old Israeli hostage Mia Shem