The Rev. Franklin Graham prayed in Israel Wednesday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, someday after touring a kibbutz in southern Israel devastated by the Oct. 7 Hamas terror assaults.
The American evangelical chief introduced the donation of 21 ambulances by Samaritan’s Purse, a Christian charity he heads, to Magen David Adom, Israel‘s emergency medical charity.
On social media, he called the actions of Hamas “evil” and “demonic.”
The number of donated ambulances includes seven armored vehicles after Mr. Graham saw the damage caused by the attacks. Three MDA medics were killed, the medical group said, including one shot in his ambulance.
“It was a privilege to meet and pray with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the moment,” Mr. Graham mentioned. “This man needs our prayers. He is facing the most trying time since the birth of their nation, with 1,200 people killed, more than 240 men, women, and children taken as hostages, and many injured in the Hamas attack.“
The evangelist, who also heads the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association founded by his late father, called for prayer for the hostages, their families and Mr. Netanyahu.
“As I spoke with a woman whose husband was taken hostage, the fear and heartache is overwhelming,” he mentioned.
The group mentioned it’s working with greater than 50 church buildings in Israel and in Gaza, the place the charity helps church buildings serving to Palestinian communities with drugs and meals. Samaritan’s Purse mentioned it’s supplied to arrange emergency subject hospitals with personnel, provides and gear in each Gaza and Israel if wanted.
The group can be donating sanitary kits, meals and debit playing cards to internally displaced Israeli survivors of the assault, the group mentioned.
“We’re deeply grateful to Franklin Graham and Samaritan’s Purse,” mentioned Eli Bin, director-general of Magen David Adom, mentioned in an announcement. He mentioned the armored ambulances “will protect our medics in a conflict in which Israel’s enemy doesn’t abide by the Geneva Convention and deliberately targets medical workers.”
