Hamas releases video of woman it claims is being held hostage

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 17 October 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Hamas released a video of Mia Schem, a 21-year-old French-Israeli woman being held hostage in the Gaza Strip. In the first video Hamas has released of any of the hostages, Schem says she’s suffered an arm injury and was brought to Gaza. Israeli authorities have said that they believe 199 people are being held in Gaza, while Hamas has claimed it’s holding up to 250 hostages. Mia’s mom, Keren Scharf Schem, tells Anderson Cooper her daughter is “strong” and that’s why they believe she’s still alive. Plus, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that President Biden will visit Israel on Wednesday. Blinken spent more than seven hours meeting with Israel’s war cabinet. CNN’s Chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward joins AC360 to discuss the President’s visit and says this is a “big win for Israel.” For daily information on the Israel-Gaza conflict, check out CNN’s podcast ‘Tug of War: Attack on Israel’ here: https://link.chtbl.com/-lB8n-bJ To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It is 3 a.m. here in Israel, the war here within the last hour or so may be widening or
0:08.6	emptying a new phase beyond just Hamas and Gaza to the south.
0:12.4	Just a short time ago, Israel's defense forces saying the IDF is now striking what it calls
0:17.0	Hezbollah terror targets in Lebanon.
0:19.9	So there's that new development.
0:21.5	And in a few hours with troops on the verge of going into Gaza and conditions there
0:25.2	becoming increasingly unlivable, people here will be waking up to what could be the
0:29.6	first of many hostage videos to come.
0:32.9	Hamas released the first one in the overnight hours.
0:36.5	The footage is of a 21-year-old French-Israeli woman named Mia Shem.
0:40.7	Now this is not from the video that Hamas put out, which we're not broadcasting because
0:45.2	it would serve no other purpose than propaganda for her captors.
0:49.0	Hamas said they now hold as many as 250 hostages.
0:53.8	Earlier Israel put the number at 199.
0:57.3	I spoke with Mia's family just before air time.
1:00.8	We're going to bring you that in a moment.
1:02.5	We'll also be joined by the massage former man in charge of trying to get hostages back
1:06.9	about the difficulties now with so many hostages, all of which could grow that much worse in
1:12.4	the hours ahead, especially if hostilities with Hezbollah in the north keep growing, which
1:18.2	may explain the Biden administration's decision to send a rapid response force into the
1:22.2	region.
1:23.2	About 2,000 Marines and sailors according to defense officials joining two aircraft
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