Schem’s mother told CNN on Monday that she believed her daughter’s resilience would help her survive. “I saw she is alive, I saw that she was… I heard before rumors that she was shot in the shoulder or in the leg so I can see she was shot in her shoulder, I see she had an operation, she looks very terrified, she looks like she is in big pain, and I can see that she says what they tell her to say,” she told reporters, urging everyone to “stop this terror” and bring her daughter back home along with other hostages. Scharf Schem said she did not know if her daughter was dead or alive until Monday and that all she knew is that she might have been kidnapped. Keren Scharf Schem holds a photo of her daughter, Mia, at a press conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, October 17, 2023.
