A heroic 22-year-old Israeli ambulance paramedic spent her final hours trying to help the wounded inside a clinic that was overrun by rampaging Hamas terrorists, as revealed in heartbreaking text messages sent to her sisters as the carnage unfolded.
Amit Mann spent six hellish hours Saturday sheltering inside the medical facility in Kibbutz Be’eri in southern Israel near the Gaza border with dead bodies and bleeding victims, reported the Israel news outlet Ynet.
Throughout the harrowing ordeal, with armed militants closing in, Mann communicated with her sisters, Haviva Isaacson and Lior, via WhatsApp, repeatedly asking them for updates on the military’s movements and desperately pleading for help.
“Do you have more medical personnel with the injured?” asked Lior, to which Mann replied: “There’s a nurse and a dentist here. We’re doing what we can.”
She said there were many injured people who were “bleeding out” but there was no way to evacuate them.
Lior asked if Mann could hear gunshots outside.
Israeli ambulance paramedic Amit Mann, 22, was killed Saturday when Hamas terrorists overran Kibbutz Be’eri. Haviva Man/Facebook
Mann texted her sisters in real time that the terrorists were attacking the clinic where she was sheltering, surrounded by dead bodies and wounded victims. Haviva Man/Facebook
In her final moments, Mann texted: “I don’t think I’ll make it out of here. Please be strong if something happens to me.” Haviva Man/Facebook“Yes. It’s never ending. It looks like there are more terrorists. They’re in people’s houses. Army forces have been hit,” Mann reported back.
Lior tried to reassure her sister, urging her not to lose hope and to wait for the military to come and liberate the besieged clinic.
“It’s a war and we’ll win — we’re stronger,” she wrote. “Focus on taking care of yourself. It’ll be over soon.”
Mann sheltered in place at the besieged clinic for six hours, repeatedly pleading with her loved ones via text messages to get help. Haviva Man/Facebook
Saturday’s savage attack on Kibbutz Be’eri claimed at least 108 lives. AP
The Israeli military engaged Hamas terrorists in a firefight in the kibbutz, but not before the militants overran the local clinic. APMann replied by saying: “I love you. Thank you.”
In a separate message to her other sister Haviva, Mann said she was hiding in the clinic’s kitchen armed with a knife until the attackers seized control of the site.
“They’re here. They’re in the clinic. I don’t think I’ll make it out of here.” Mann texted. “Please be strong if something happens to me.”
Israel-Hamas war: How we got here
2005: Israel unilaterally withdraws from the Gaza Strip more than three decades after winning the territory from Egypt in the Six-Day War.
2006: Terrorist group Hamas wins a Palestinian legislative election.
2007: Hamas seizes control of Gaza in a civil war.
2008: Israel launches military offensive against Gaza after Palestinian terrorists fired rockets into the town of Sderot.
2023: Hamas launches the biggest attack on Israel in 50 years, in an early-morning ambush Oct. 7, firing thousands of rockets and sending dozens of militants into Israeli towns.
Terrorists killed more than 1,200 Israelis, wounded more than 4,200, and took at least 200 hostage.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quick to announce, “We are at war,” and vowed Hamas would pay “a price it has never known.”
The Gaza Health Ministry — which is controlled by Hamas — reported at least 3,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 12,500 injured since the war began.
In her final moments, Mann managed to make a phone call to her family, on which she could be heard crying out above the sound of gunfire: “They’re on me! They shot my legs!”
Mann’s siblings would spend the next two days frantically trying to track her down amid the chaos of Israel’s war on Hamas.
On Monday, the paramedic’s body was found along with at least 107 others in the battle-scarred kibbutz.
“My heart is broken and bleeding,” Lior told Ynet after learning of Amit’s death. “She was the princess of our home, the light of our lives who lost her life in the battle for Be’eri, and as an experienced medic, tried saving lives until the last moment when she was murdered by evil terrorists.”
Mann’s sisters, Haviva and Lior, were in communication with her during the harrowing ordeal and heard her dying cries: “They’re on me! They shot my legs!” Haviva Man/FacebookOfficials with Magen David Adom, Israel’s national ambulance service, released a statement praising Mann for her courage.
“Amit was a heroic paramedic who continued to treat the wounded even while terrorists tried to break into the clinic in Kibbutz Be’eri,” service director Gen. Eli Bin said. “She sacrificed herself while trying to protect the lives of the patients — her priority was only what was best for them.”
“Her untimely passing left us shocked and in pain. Magen David Adom cherishes all that Amit has done, and our employees and volunteers bow their heads and hug her family. May her memory be blessed,” he added.
Mann began her career at the ambulance service in 2015 as a youth volunteer. Four years ago, she was qualified as an EMT and later as a paramedic, working in intensive care mobility in Israel’s Negev region.
Mann has been hailed as a hero by Israel’s ambulance service, where she had worked as an EMT and paramedic for the past four years. Mary and Ron/Facebook“During her entire time at MDA, Amit acted professionally, with a great sense of duty in her work,” the agency stated. “Amit dreamed of studying medicine and continuing to save lives.”
Saturday’s massacre in Kibbutz Be’eri claimed the lives of 10% of the rural community’s population, with reports coming out of Israel claiming that entire families were indiscriminately slaughtered in their homes.
