A BRAVE IDF soldier who survived a brutal assault on October 7 instructed how she miraculously made it alive after Hamas fighters shot her 12 times.

Eden Ram, a First Lieutenant recalled “waiting for the final bullet” as she laid immobile surrounded by the our bodies of her lifeless buddies.

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Eden was the officer on responsibility within the Urim Southern District Base in Israel when she had to run to the Operations Room after Hamas infiltrated their navy compound.

She was ready alongside six different officers when she heard Hamas detonating explosives – it was at this level that she began sending goodbye messages to all of her family members.

Hamas finally blew up the final door and fired all of their gunpower into the officers with out pausing.

Eden instructed i24: “I had been shot 12 times — bullets in my legs, my left hand and my shoulder.

“I thank God who watched over me and was with me in that room.

“I nonetheless cannot imagine that I’m right here, that I’m alive, and God prepared I ought to give you the chance to regain full perform.

“It is simply a miracle.”

After she had been shot, Eden recalled that the Hamas gunmen waited a bit bit, spoke to one another in Arabic, searched for paperwork, checked that they had been lifeless, after which left.

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She remembers mendacity there, bleeding out in between the our bodies of her lifeless buddies and colleagues, when she felt any individual’s breath.

Only she and her good friend Sahar survived the assault.

As Eden lay there, Sahar jumped into motion, instantly taking off her uniform to give first assist.

Eden stated: “I began to touch my whole body to see where I was hit, how much I was bleeding, and how much time I had left to live. I felt like I was dying.”

The pair then continued to play lifeless, and waited collectively for 4 hours till rescue arrived.

Although Eden later revealed that she was in a lot ache she could not say a phrase anyway.

Eventually, a crew of responding commandos had been ready to attain them.

They described “total chaos” and a “pile of bodies”, however stated that they discovered two alive in between the corpses. This included Eden, who they described as “completely white and immobile”.

After being rescued she was taken to Soroka Hospital, Beersheba, the place she was lastly ready to name her household and inform them she was alive.

She was quickly moved to the Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, the place she had two operations.

In the primary 48 hours, medical doctors fought to save her life. For three days after, she was placed on air flow and stored closely sedated.

Now, a month and a half after being shot 12 times, Eden has been rushing by way of the rehabilitation course of.

Just days in the past, she walked to obtain an award from the president of Israel. During the ceremony she made a speech by which she detailed how grateful she is to be alive.

She stated: “I’m excited to stand earlier than you alive and respiration, rehabilitating and coming again to life.

“The troublesome moments will accompany me ceaselessly. I had exhausting ideas about whether or not I used to be even alive and if I might give you the chance to maintain on.

“But then a miracle known as me. At the hospital, I used to be born once more.

“Every day I take one other step in my rehabilitation journey. Just yesterday I used to be again on my ft for the primary time.

“At Sheba there are individuals who do holy work and remind us that the ability lies within the love of man.

“This is where the actual revival takes place. The people of Israel are alive.”

Eden’s fierce resilience follows the information that Israel has simply deployed a battalion of their greatest, strongest and {most professional} female fighters to perform a particular op in Gaza.

29-year-old Major Shira, the commander of this elite all-female crew, described their actions within the Gaza Strip as “another glass ceiling shattered”.

She stated: “We are fighters alongside males and in cooperation with particular models.

“This is a high point, another glass ceiling that has been shattered.”

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