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In the country facing war on two fronts, the purse of Christian Aid Group Samaritan is making a major impact.
From the construction of armored ambulance stations to promise a new trauma recovery center on the spot, the US -based Christian Human Help Group is stepping into dangerous areas to help people live with fear every day.
Edward Graham, the chief operating officer of Samari’s purse and grandson of Rev Billy Graham, spent on 2 June while visiting the stressful northern and southern borders of Israel.
He met with the survivors, soldiers, medics and local leaders, who are still trying to overcome the recent attacks of Hizbullah and Hamas.
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Edward Graham congratulates the residents of Kibutz Edmit near the northern boundary of Israel with Lebanon, COO of Samarine. Graham visited Missile-Hit communities to give armored ambulance and encourage reconstruction efforts. (Courtesy of Samari’s purse)
Graham said during a visit to Arabia al-Aramashe, “We will not or not,” during a visit to a northern Israeli village colliding with Hizbullah missiles and drones. “Not just because we love you, but because God loves you.”
Before arriving, Graham flew over the Jordan River Valley, beyond West Bank.
“These communities were killed here, and they have also forgotten,” they said. “But Samari’s purse has not forgotten him. We have got great relations with local community leaders and churches in the region. These people are hurt. So we are here – to tell Israel to tell Israel that they have not forgotten. And God blesses them.”
The Arabia al-Aramashe is still picking up the pieces, as a deadly drone strike blew the roof from the local community center and killed a person who was trying to protect him. The pellet still scares the building. Samari’s purse is constructing a new ambulance station in the nearby city of Shloomi to serve Arabia Al-Ramashe and surrounding communities.
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One of the most difficult-turned communities during the October Hamas terror attack, a string of the Israeli flag, hangs over the remains of a building in Neer Oz. (Samari’s purse)
“We are giving ambulances in Israel to support communities in this way,” Graham said. “We are also constructing ambulance exchange points, safe places, where medical teams can store ambulances and respond to emergency situations. It is about restoring confidence so that people feel safe to go back.”
“It was a dead area that was filled with alarm every day,” said Moshe Davidovitz, the mayor of the Matte Ashher Regional Council and head of the Northern Conflict Area Forum. “We just don’t want to fix the place. We want to increase the place … but we need to be able to provide some protection.
“Thousands of people evacuated,” said Davidovitz. “They are refugees in their own country. While they left, they did not know what happened to their house, their dogs, whatever they left behind.”
It is coming as a 42 -armored ambulance donated by Purses of Safety Samaritan to Israel’s National Emergency Service, Magen David Adom (MDA). One of them has already been assigned to Arabia al-Aramshe.
Ali Wahid, a senior drug in the region, said that the new ambulance makes a big difference.
“We are not afraid to answer. But now we’ll feel safe when you answer,” he said.
After going north, Graham flew south on the Gaza strip to the southern border of Israel.
After the terrorist attack of October Hamas, near the Gaza border, a poster of an Israeli man was hanged on the wall of a burnt house in Neer Oz’s Kibutz. (Samari’s purse)
“Hamas came out and attacked communities here,” he said. “Jews and Arab communities were killed. Today I am watching another ambulance exchange point. There are still many displaced people. We want to bring back confidence and security, so people can come home.”
In Neer Oz, in a kibutz where one of the four inhabitants was either kidnapped or Hamas was murdered during the brutal October 2024 attack, the loss is still heavy. The houses are burnt and disintegrated. The poster shows the faces of the loved ones, including Baby Kefir Bibas and 83 -year -old grandfather Oded Lifeshitz, both killed by Hamas.
Graham said, “This is where he burnt houses, pulled children from his parents, killed the children,” Graham said, standing in ruins.
“You see pictures of people who are no longer here. The explosions are happening in this village all the time. But the leaders here are reconstructing. They want to bring back people in this summer. And the purse of Comminse committed to help with only a community clinic and flexibility center.”
The Mayor of the Ashkol region, Mishal Uziahu moved to Graham through destruction. His area lost 244 people on 7 October. Half of the hostage still organized by Hamas has come from its communities.
“Seventy percent of the massacre happened here,” he said. “Every fourth person was either murdered or abducted.”
Nevertheless, she insists that the region will not be defined from terror.
“We are firm to ensure that the tragedy will not define us,” said Uziahu. “This place will be full of life again. Terrorists are afraid that the most tanks or fighter jets are not the voice of children laughing on our streets.”
Graham offered a simple message from what he saw.
“There is a lot of pain, murder and breakdown,” he said. “But I have talked to the remaining people and asked if they hate. And they do not. They still love their neighbors. They want peace. I do not even understand myself.
Samari’s purse is building a flexibility center in the Eshkol region and in another nearby Merhwim area, there is a home of about 4,000 children, many of which have experienced devastating trauma.
“We never define ourselves through the tragedy,” said Uziahu. “We define ourselves with life and hope.”
With the trauma centers, Samari’s purse is constructing two EMS stations, a Gaza border, where the residents killed during the October attacks as Medics could not reach them during the time.
The group is also installing 25 bomb shelters in Israel, 11 in the north and 14 in the south.
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In the north, Graham met a mother, Sarah Cleman and her 5 -year -old son. He returned home after escaping from Hizbullah rocket attacks.
“We don’t try to think what can happen,” he said. “But we wanted to come home. This is our home.”
