October 7 hostage Mia Schem is engaged! Former captive kisses her partner as she announces joyous news

A pistillate who was taken hostage by Hamas connected October 7 and held captive for 54 days has announced her engagement.

Mia Schem shared a buss with her fiance contiguous arsenic she took to societal media to denote her news. 

Her engagement comes conscionable 2 days earlier the 1 twelvemonth day of her merchandise from captivity successful Gaza.

The 22-year-old was released alongside 8 different hostages connected November 30 2023  during a impermanent ceasefire betwixt Hamas and Israel.  

Taking to Instagram, Ms Schem announced her betrothal with a representation of her engagement ring. 

She was besides congratulated connected the Israeli government's authoritative X account. 

In a station connected the level they wrote: 'Mazal Tov to Mia Schem and her spouse Yinon who got engaged today! 

'Mia is an incredibly brave pistillate who was held hostage by Hamas for 54 days. Mia, you merit each the happiness successful the world. We emotion you.'

Ms Schem was among the most high-profile captees aft Hamas released a video successful the aboriginal days of the warfare showing her recovering from surgery. 

While she was prisoner, a vet operated connected her limb leaving the French-Israeli national with a disposable scar.  

Since her release, Ms Schem has recalled the harrowing conditions she was kept successful which included being locked in 5ft-high cage 200ft underground 'without aerial and without light' for 5 days with respective different women.

She besides described being marched to the cage for 2 hours done Gaza's infamous tunnels, with 'an equipped violent successful beforehand [and] equipped terrorists successful back' aft spending 50 days successful captivity.

Speaking extracurricular the United Nations National Security Council connected November 6, the tattoo creator called connected the UN to bash much to resoluteness the hostage crisis.

Ms Schem said: 'For 50 days, I was kept alone, suffering from an unbearable symptom successful my manus without immoderate treatment.

'A Hamas violent sat successful beforehand of maine successful a acheronian country with a weapon pointed astatine my head. 

'Not a azygous humanitarian bureau saw maine oregon treated maine adjacent arsenic my limb got worse. Where was the Red Cross? Where was the UN demanding that we person entree to us?'

She continued: 'In this moment, 60 meters underground with nary air, nary light, nary hope, my friends are inactive being held by monsters.

'My bosom is inactive with them, captive successful Gaza. I basal present and request that you bring each of them location now!'

'It's been implicit a year, and the UN has not lifted the digit to escaped the hostages, she added.

Ms Schem antecedently opened up astir her acquisition of being held successful the 5ft-high cage arsenic she spoke extracurricular the Israeli consulate successful New York successful October.

Referring to the infinitesimal she was locked up, she said: 'There I met 5 young women, each with their ain horrific abduction story.

'We spent 5 days successful that acheronian cage, with 2 equipped guards changing shifts each 12 hours.'

While the 22-year-old was freed successful the archetypal circular of hostage releases 5 days later, present much than a twelvemonth on, the different women are inactive being held successful Gaza.

Terrifying footage showed Ms Schem being surrounded by a screaming mob arsenic she was walked from a car and handed implicit to Red Cross operatives connected November 30 past year.

A person, believed to beryllium a antheral relative, was seen kissing her forehead aft not seeing her for 7 weeks.

In the 54 days she was held successful Gaza, she was forced to movie a propaganda video which showed her receiving attraction for injuries she sustained successful her kidnapping from the Nova Festival.

Upon her accomplishment successful Gaza, Ms Schem was bundled into a gathering wherever idiosyncratic operated connected her hand. Her household members claimed she had been operated connected by a vet.

'There was nary anaesthesia, nary nothing... I choked up from the pain, and [the idiosyncratic performing the operation] looks astatine maine and says, ''Stop it! Or I'll nonstop you to the tunnels'', she said successful a erstwhile interview.

Some 240 hostages were taken from confederate Israel into Gaza erstwhile Hamas launched its abrupt battle connected October 7.

More than 1,200 were besides killed successful the onslaught arsenic equipped gunmen struck residential kibbutzim and the Nova euphony festival adjacent Re'im.

Hamas released much than 100 hostages during a week-long ceasefire astatine the extremity of November past year, astir of them agreed arsenic portion of a woody with Israel

However, present much than a twelvemonth on, much than 90 stay unaccounted for.

There are thought to beryllium much than 60 hostages inactive live and the bodies of a further 35 held by Hamas.