‘She Looks Very Terrified’ Mom of Israeli Hostage Mia Schem Shown in Video Begs for Her Return

The mother of a woman in the first hostage video released by Hamas gave an emotional plea on Tuesday to bring her daughter home.

Keren Schem, who watched the video on live TV, spoke at a press conference after learning her daughter was still alive.

“She looks very terrified,” the mother said. “She looks like she is in big pain.”

Schem said she heard “rumors she had been shot in her shoulder or her leg” but now knows she was shot in the shoulder. 

“I am begging you: Give me back my baby girl,” Shem pleaded at the news conference in Tel Aviv. “She only went to a party.”

The name Schem can be transliterated as Shem.

The hostage video, which surfaced Monday, shows 21-year-old Mia Schem, an Israeli-French woman who was kidnapped from the Supernova Music Festival, where the terrorists also killed some 260 revelers.

"Get me out of here as soon as possible. Please," she says in the video. "I was seriously injured in my hand. I underwent surgery on my hand at the hospital [in Gaza] for three hours."

Mia's mother said she believes that her daughter was saying what her captors wanted her to say.

“This is a crime against humanity,” Schem said. “And we should all gather together and stop this terror and bring everyone back home.”

“Mia is an innocent child,” her brother Eli Schem said at the news conference. “We want to bring her back.”

The Israeli Defense Forces issued a statement in reaction to the video.

“In the video published by Hamas, they try to portray themselves as humane. However, they are a horrorific terrorist organization responsible for the murder and abduction of babies, children, men, women and the elderly,” the statement said.