A 22-year-old Israeli medic spent her final hours helping the injured at a clinic that had just been stormed by Hamas attackers last Saturday.
Amit Mann spent six hours in the clinic in the village of Be’eri, a few kilometers from the Gaza border, Israeli media Ynet reported.
During the soldiers’ attack, the young medic communicated via WhatsApp with her sisters Haviva Isaacson and Lior, begging them to help her and give her information.
“Do you have more medical staff for the injured?” Lior asked him specifically.
“There is a nurse and a dentist here. We are doing what we can,” Amit replied, explaining that several people were “bleeding out” but there was no way to evacuate them.
“It’s endless. It looks like there are more terrorists. They are in people’s homes. The armed forces are affected,” the medic said to her sister.
In a message to Haviva Isaacson, she told him that she was hiding in the clinic’s kitchen armed with a knife.
“They are here. They are in the clinic. I don’t think I can get out of here,” she wrote. “Be strong if something happens to me.”
Moments later, Amit managed to call his family, where they shouted over the noise of gunfire: “They’re coming at me! They shot my legs!”
This is Amit Mann, 21, a paramedic who came to Kibbut Beeri to save lives. For six hours she hid among the corpses and wounded. He texted her family to let them know he loved them and didn’t think she would make it through this. THE… pic.twitter.com/zqyEn240MJ
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Officials from Israel’s National Ambulance Service – Magen David Adom (MDA) – highlighted the 22-year-old’s final heroic moments.
“Amit was a heroic medic who continued to treat the injured even as terrorists tried to break into the clinic at Kibbutz Be’eri,” MDA Director General Eli Bin said in a statement.
“She sacrificed herself to protect the lives of patients – her priority was what was best for them,” he added.