Samaritan's Purse pledges to donate 20 ambulances to Israel: 'Need is so great'
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Samaritan's Purse surprised Israel's emergency services provider with a pledge to donate twenty more ambulances during a ceremony to unveil an ambulance station.
"The building of the station is building a bridge between the awful events that happened and much more hopeful future here," added Bin.Samaritan's Purse donated 14 ambulances to MDA in January after Hamas forces destroyed rescue vehicles in Israel during the October 2023 attack."The generosity of Reverend Franklin Graham and his organization Samaritan’s Purse knows no bounds. As he dedicated eight additional Magen David Adom armored ambulances and two new MDA stations, he leaned in and told me he would donate another twenty, taking the total amount to forty-two life-saving vehicles. The entire people of Israel are indebted to this great man and organization," said MDA director general Eli Bin. Samaritan's Purse offers humanitarian aid in more than 100 countries worldwide to "victims of war, disease, disaster, poverty, famine and persecution," according to their website. Jasmine is a writer at Fox News Digital and a military spouse based in New Orleans. Stories can be sent to jasmine.baehr@fox.com