“We will dance again. » Thursday, November 30, Mia Shem, Franco-Israeli hostage of Hamas, was released, benefiting from an agreement between Israel and the terrorist movement, on the seventh day of a truce which has since ended. After her 54 days of captivity and ten days of silence, Mia Shem published a message of hope on Instagram on Saturday.
She posted two photographs of herself on Instagram, sporting a new tattoo reading “We will dance again,” in French. In the caption, the young woman wrote the date of the Hamas attacks, October 7, 2023, and wrote a message of hope. ” I’ll never forget. The pain and the fear, the difficult shows, the friends who will not return and those we must find. But we still have to win. We will dance again! »
Kidnapped at a festival
Mia Shem was kidnapped from the Tribe of Nova music festival, in the Negev desert bordering the Gaza Strip, where 364 people were killed on October 7 and many others kidnapped and taken by Hamas fighters to the Strip. Gaza.
According to the Forum of Families of Hostages or Missing, the 21-year-old young woman, who worked in a tattoo parlor, was there in the company of a friend, also Franco-Israeli, Elya Toledano, 27, whose fate is unknown.
” The best day of my life “
Upon his release, Emmanuel Macron spoke of “great joy” for all French people. “You are with me, everything is fine,” his mother Keren whispered to him as she welcomed him to a military base, images released by the Israeli government. Mia Shem’s brother, Eli Moshe, was also present. All three hugged each other for a long time before slipping away to find each other in privacy.
“It’s the happiest day of my life,” his father David Shem told Israeli television channel Channel 12. “The army called me, I almost had a heart attack,” he said. he testified. “I’m not going to leave her for a long time. »