"Please get me out of here": Hamas publishes the first video of a hostage held in Gaza after the attack on the festival

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) published this Monday a first video of a 21-year-old French-Israeli hostage who remains held in the Gaza Strip after the attack by the Palestinian group on the electronic music festival in southern Israel.

“Hello, my name is Mia Schem. I am 21 years old and I am from Shoham. Right now I'm in Gaza. I returned early Saturday morning from a party in Sderot. I seriously injured my hand. They brought me to Gaza and took care of me in the hospital here,” he explains in the recording, subtitled in Arabic and collected by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

The young woman, who appears looking at the camera on a brown background after several shots in which a person adjusts the bandages on her hand, has asked to be taken home “soon” to reunite with her family.. “Please get me out of here as soon as possible,” the young woman asks, speaking in Hebrew.

The Israel Defense Forces confirmed this Monday that 199 people are being held by Palestinian militiamen in the Gaza Strip, a new official figure that the Army has made public after having notified their respective families.

Israeli authorities reported that they had recovered more than 250 bodies at a music festival venue in the Negev desert when Palestinian militias carried out armed raids.

The music festival was organized to coincide with the Jewish holiday of Sukkot.. It started at 11pm on Friday and lasted all night with thousands of attendees, mostly Israelis between 20 and 40 years old.