"They shot my dad": the difficult calls to MDA on October 7
Three years after the October 7 massacre, recordings of calls to the MDA hotline from that day are revealed. Twenty-two thousand calls from citizens crying for help, including the call of Bar Godard, daughter of the late Meni Godard, who was murdered and whose body was returned from Gaza after 769 days. The dispatchers tried to give aid and comfort as best they could.
Three years after the October 7, 2023 massacre, recordings of calls to the MDA hotline from that accursed day are being revealed. Twenty-two thousand calls from citizens who phoned and desperately cried for help, while dispatchers tried with their limited ability to provide aid and comfort. Among the calls revealed: the call of Bar Godard, daughter of the late Meni Godard, who was murdered that day and whose body was returned from Gaza after 769 days in captivity. At 8:00 in the morning she dialed MDA and said: "Urgent, to Kibbutz Be'eri, ambulance, they shot my dad." The article presents the recordings and the stories of those who survived to tell. The calls reflect the chaos and helplessness that surrounded that black Sabbath, and the moments when the understanding began to seep in that the world had changed and would not return to what it was.