Ex-hostage’s star turn at Elton fete

Mia Schem, the Israeli French tattoo artist who was kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7, attended Elton John’s Oscars party Sunday night.

Schem, 21, who still wears a cast on her right arm after being shot during the terrorist attack, was at the 32nd Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party.

Schem (left) wore an elegant white gown adorned with a yellow rhinestone pin to raise awareness for the Israelis still being held captive in Gaza.

She arrived in the US last week along with at least 17 relatives of hostages to attend President Biden’s State of the Union address.

Schem, who was the guest of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), was kidnapped during the Nova festival massacre in Re’im, Israel.

She was among more than 200 Israelis abducted in the attack by the terrorists, who also killed more than 1,200 people.

She was thrown onto a pickup truck and taken into Gaza, where she had a makeshift splint placed on her wounded arm, then taken to a Palestinian home. In a Hamas propaganda video, she later was forced to praise her captors for treating her injured arm.

Before being released during a temporary ceasefire in November, she spent her days in Gaza under constant fear that she would be raped and killed, revealing on Israeli TV why she wasn’t: “His [her captor’s] wife was outside the room with the children.”

But she added that she was starved and taunted by the terrorist’s family. “His wife hated the fact that he and I were in the same room. There is fear of being raped, there is fear of dying,” she said.