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Former Hamas hostage Mia Schem gets engaged a year after she was released
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Former Hamas hostage Mia Schem gets engaged a year after she was released

Former Hamas hostage Mia Schem marked the first anniversary of her freedom from the terror group by getting engaged to her boyfriend.

Schem, 22, who survived 54 days in captivity, announced her engagement to childhood friend Yinon Hassan, 24, on Thursday after he proposed in the coastal city of Caesarea.

Hassan, who started dating Schem after she was released during the first wave of hostage takings last November, got down on one knee and asked for her hand in marriage, The Jerusalem Post reported.

Released Hamas hostage Mia Schem is engaged to her childhood friend Yinon Hassan. @AvivaKlompas/X
Schem shows off her engagement ring in Caesarea, Israel. @mia_schem/Instagram

Schem posted photos of the couple holding hands while her engagement ring flashed, along with a photo of the happy couple kissing, on social media.

The post attracted widespread support, with several Israeli restaurants offering to host or cater Schem’s bachelor party.

Speculation about the couple’s impending engagement arose in August when Schem agreed to pose in a wedding dress campaign for Israeli designers, where she openly showed off the scars she suffered during the October 7 terrorist attack.

The French-Israeli tattoo artist was among those kidnapped during Hamas’s raid on the Tribe of Nova music festival, where Schem was shot in the right arm.

Schem was shot in the arm during the October 7 massacre. @JoeTruzman/X

The 22-year-old was soon featured in the first round of Hamas propaganda videos, where she was forced to praise the three-hour operation on her arm that the terrorists carried out.

Schem would later reveal that she had suffered terrible pain from her wound during captivity, while her captors did nothing to help her.

The terrorists also left her in a cage for days and even taunted her by showing her television reports of her mother pleading for her safe return, she said.

Schem has become a vocal activist calling for the safe return of the remaining hostages in Gaza. Doree Lewak

Since her release last year, Schem has become one of the most vocal advocates for the release of the remaining hostages in Gaza.

“I have to fight for the rest of the hostages — this is my life,” Schem told The Post during her visit to New York earlier this month.

“I feel like I have a mission – to speak, to tell the world my story, for the other hostages who can’t,” she added.

“And to be the voice for the girls who are still here.”