I feared being raped by Hamas gunman who watched me round the clock…only one thing stopped him, says freed Mia Schem

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FREED Israeli hostage Mia Schem has told of her fear at being raped by her Hamas captor while he watched her round the clock – but one thing stopped him.

Mia, 21, has bravely revealed the horrors she endured during her 54 days of “hell” trapped in the clutches of the terror group who locked her up like a “animal”.

Mia Schem has spoken out on Israel TV to recount the ‘Holocaust’ she experienced at the hands of Hamas[/caption]

Mia Schem says she spent three days lying in a hospital room before being operated on

She was forced to share a room with the male terrorist who watched her 24-hours a day[/caption]

Hamas released a video of Mia being operated on during her captivity – she claims there was no painkillers or anaesthesia[/caption]

The Israeli-French tattoo artist, from Shoham in central Israel, was snatched during the Supernova music festival bloodbath on October 7 and dragged into Gaza by Hamas monsters.

As one of the last hostages to be released during a seven-day truce deal in late November, Mia recently broke her silence in interviews with Israeli TV channels.

Choking back tears, Mia recalled the harrowing moment she was dragged from a burning car, loaded into a pickup truck and taken to a Hamas gunman’s home where, she said, he sat watch at her bedside.

She told Channel 13: “[I was] closed in a dark room, not allowed to talk, not allowed to be seen, to be heard, hidden.

“There is a terrorist looking at you 24/7, looking, raping you with his eyes.”

She added: “There is a fear of being raped, there is a fear of dying … I was frightened.”

However, she believes the presence of his wife – although openly hostile towards her – was the one thing holding him back.

“His wife was outside the room with the children. That was the only reason he didn’t rape me,” Mia explained.

Mia said that her captor’s wife had “toyed” with her, serving him meals while starving her.

“His wife hated the fact that he and I were in the same room… she was so mean, she had such mean eyes – a bad woman.”

Reflecting on the hell she endured in captivity, the young Israeli said: “It’s important to me to reveal the truth about the people who live in Gaza, about who they really are.

“Everyone there is a terrorist.”

When asked what she wanted people to know about her ordeal, she responded: “That I went through Holocaust.

“Everyone there were terrorists. Entire families are in the service of Hamas.”

With her arm still bandaged, Mia also described how three days into her captivity she was operated on with “no anaesthesia, no nothing” after being shot in the arm.

She had made headlines in October when Hamas cruelly released a hostage video of her undergoing treatment for the bullet wound. Her family previously claimed she was operated on by a vet.

She told Israel’s Channel 12: “[The surgeon] looked at me and said, ‘You’re not going to go home alive’.”

She added: “I choked up from the pain, and he looks at me and says, ‘Stop it! Or I’ll send you to the tunnels'”.

The 21-year-old also she and her fellow hostages were kept in a locked room for 24 hours a day, starving as children taunted them with food.

“You’re like an animal in the safari.”

Mia continued: “You’re afraid that something will happen at any moment. They would throw me food once a day, some days they wouldn’t. The children would open the door and look.

“You are talked about and laughed about. Once this little boy, my sister’s age, entered the room with a bag of sweets. He came to me, opened the bag, closed it and left. It’s evil… how evil.”

In the days before her release, Mia was held in tunnels 200ft below ground where she struggled to breathe.

Since being released, she has undergone multiple surgeries due to the damage the bullet inflicted on her arm bone.

At home, she revealed she is struggling to cope with the trauma of her Holocaust-like hell and survivor’s guilt.

“It was the hardest thing in the world [to leave].

“[The other hostages] said, ‘Mia, please, don’t let them forget about us’. And I’m apologising for being freed. ‘Sorry, sorry’.”

Some 240 people including men, women, and children were taken from southern Israel into Gaza when Hamas launched its killing spree on October 7 and slaughtered 1,200 people.

The terror group released more than 100 hostages – all women and children – during a week-long ceasefire at the end of November.

More than 100 remain in captivity with a number reported to be dead.

In mid-December, the IDF reported that they had recovered the body of Mia’s friend, Elia Toledano, 28, who was kidnapped with her from the Supernova festival.

Toledano marked the 20th hostage to have died in Gaza, according to the IDF.