The rape trial of an ex-Israeli hostage caught worldwide attention on social media, with comments saying, “it was safer for her when she was with Hamas,” Israeli media said on Thursday.
Mia Schem, 23, was released by Hamas from the Gaza Strip in November 2023 during a week-long ceasefire between the Israeli army and the Palestinian resistance group.
Schem said that she was raped by a well-known Israeli fitness trainer and influencer in her house after giving her a date-rape drug.
“This was my biggest fear my whole life, before captivity, during captivity,” Haaretz daily quoted Schem as saying.
“And it happened to me after captivity, in my safest place.”