DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- Moran Yanai spent 54 days in captivity after being kidnapped by Hamas and taken to Gaza on October 7th, 2023.

She has been sharing her story so that it can provide hope to others. Yanai spoke to a crowd about her experience at the Millennium Hotel in Durham.

Yanai was selling jewelry at the Nova Music festival when it was stormed by Hamas. - Captured and taken into Gaza - enduring pain and suffering, breaking her leg in several places, she says the real challenge was mental.

"I'm talking about mind over body to understand that this machine can do so much more than we think," she says.

But she says she kept up her faith, and eventually was among the first hostages to be released.

"You see everything so clearly, you think clearly. But then, also you see the amoun

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