Newly aired recordings of paramedic Amit Mann renew push to let families access Oct. 7 records

Three years after paramedic Amit Mann was killed on Oct. 7, newly aired recordings of her final calls reveal fresh details about her last hours. The recordings prompted her sister, Haviva Mann Izikson, to renew an appeal for a centralized system to ensure other families are not left searching for similar records years later.

Three years after paramedic Amit Mann, 22, was killed by Hamas while treating the wounded in Kibbutz Be'eri on Oct. 7, 2023, newly aired recordings of her final calls revealed fresh and harrowing details about her last hours. The recordings, aired by Channel 12 on Tuesday, prompted her sister, Haviva Mann Izikson, to renew an appeal for a centralized system to ensure other families are not left searching for similar records years later. The calls capture Amit repeatedly calling emergency services as Hamas terrorists overran Be'eri, seeking assistance while continuing to treat wounded residents. The previously unknown calls came to light by chance when Mann Izikson contacted Magen David Adom seeking precise times of calls Amit had made on Oct. 7. MDA provided information on seven calls; the family had known of only four. Mann Izikson said hearing them revealed that what Amit endured was "even worse than we had thought" and the extent to which she continued caring for others. The recordings trace Amit's increasingly desperate attempts to summon help as terrorists closed in around the dental clinic. Hours later, she sent her sisters a chilling last message: "They're here, in the clinic. I don't think I'll make it out of here. I love you." Mann Izikson is urging the state to establish a central body that would collect all existing documentation from Oct. 7, catalogue it by victim, and contact each family. A law passed in July established an Oct. 7 Memory Authority slated to include an archive, due to take effect in January, but it is unclear whether it will match material to individual victims. Experts cited ethical and legal hurdles, including that families differ in how they want to encounter such material.