“We’ll dance again.” In four little words, she imprinted on her skin the memory of October 7th, the day from which her life would never be the same. Mia Shem, a 21-year-old French-Israeli woman, took to Instagram this Saturday to show off a tattoo commemorating her abduction from the Nova Tribe music festival and her 55 days of captivity.
“I’ll never forget,” she wrote in the caption. “Pain and fear, terrible visions, friends who will not return and those we have yet to return. But we still have to win. We’re going to dance again! “concludes the 21-year-old young woman, as if thumbing her nose at her kidnappers who attacked the festival. In total, at least 350 people were killed during this event, which took place a few kilometers from the border with the Gaza Strip.
An inscription reminiscent of the word “suffering”.
Under the English phrase “We will dance again,” the girl also wrote “10/7/23,” referring to the date of the attack. It was only after she got the tattoo that she discovered that the inscription “7.10” resembled the word “סבל” (Sevel) in Hebrew, which means “suffering,” notes the Yediot Ahronot newspaper. An unexpected double meaning, but which weighs heavily on the young girl. This tattoo is not accidental: Mia Shem, passionate about this art, long before her captivity, sought to master the profession of a tattoo artist.
In the photo we can see that his right arm is still injured. Back on October 16, she appeared in a Hamas propaganda video with her arm in a bandage. In this short film, Mia explained that she was in the hands of a terrorist group: “I am in the Gaza Strip, I was treated, the operation lasted three hours and everything is fine,” assured the young woman, born of a French father. I ask you to bring me home as quickly as possible, back to my family. Please get us out of here as quickly as possible.”
VIDEO. Hamas hostages: French-Israeli Mia Shem freed, her mother cries
She was finally released by Hamas on November 30 after 55 days of captivity, the last day of a truce between the Israeli army and the terrorist group. After five days of hospitalization, she returned home to her family in a Tel Aviv suburb on December 5.
Source: Le Parisien
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