A year and seven months have passed since Ori Magidish was the first hostage in Gaza to be rescued from captivity in Gaza by IDF forces. Channel 12’s Uvda program broadcast an interview with Ori on Wednesday in which she revealed new details of her harrowing ordeal and spoke about the emunah that sustained her. She spoke about the morning of October 7: “We saw 30-40 terrorists entering the bomb shelter in euphoria; they were in the happiest state possible. They walked in and smiled; I can’t forget their smiles. I don’t even remember what they look like, but I remember they were smiling. And they looked at us, and they checked who was alive and who wasn’t. They began lifting up the ones who were alive—me and Noa [Marciano, H’yd], and all the girls who were abducted—and lining us up against the wall. I looked at the other girls who were no longer alive, and I said to myself, ‘Why am I on this side and they’re on that side?’ Ori said that she then accidentally made eye contact with one of the terrorists. “He pointed at me, and they took me first. They put me in an IDF jeep and told me to bend down and quickly get into the front of the vehicle.” At that point, Ori was unaware that her best friend, Noa Marciano, H’yd, who was later murdered in captivity, was in the back of the jeep. The terrorists also put Naama Levy in the jeep. When they were deep inside Gaza, Ori and Naama were separated from Noa and transferred to a hideout apartment. Ori spoke about the emunah that sustained her while she was in Gaza. “I had emunah that Hashem was by my side, that He’s watching me and would get me out of there.” She said that she repeatedly searched for signs from Shamayim. “I would ask a question: that if I need to get out of here, let there be a boom. And then there was a boom. There were all sorts of signs.” Another time, she asked Hashem to see a butterfly as a sign from Shamayim. “Suddenly, one of the captors took out a toy in the shape of a very colorful butterfly. I started to smile. I  felt that He was with me.” On her third Shabbos in Gaza, the Air Force bombings damaged the apartment she was in. “The ceiling collapsed on us, and the whole house was on fire. One of the captors died at that moment. I didn’t even feel like I was injured. I put my hands on my face, and I saw there was blood, but I didn’t realize the extent of my injuries.” She would find out later that she had suffered a fractured skull. The only terrorist who survived left the apartment with her. Another terrorist then came with an ambulance and brought them to a nearby hospital, where she suffered excruciating pain as the doctors stitched her face and head without anesthesia. “I kind of start to lose my balance, the whole room is spinning. One of the doctors spoke to me in English and told me that they’re going to stitch my head and face now. They start cleaning the area around my mouth, and they don’t numb […]