Thursday, residents of the Modeiin Elite settlement donated NIS 30,000 worth of medical equipment to an ambulance from the neighboring Palestinian village of Naleen.Apparently, this is not just an isolated incident but the result of an ongoing close relationship between the two communities.
"Neither the left or right-wing can create discourse between us and our neighbors, particularly Naleen," [Modeiin Elite's security Shuky] Guterman continued, recounting that some thousand village residents work in Modeiin Elite, thus creating a daily connection between the villages.It's nice to read about stories like this.
Husseini Nafar, the leader of one of the village clans, also spoke and asked in his speech "to stop the building of the fence that will disrupt our life. We aren't willing to be separated from Hashmonaim and Modeiin Elite."
It turns out that the two settlements have been in contact with the village for a long time, through their Magen David Adom EMT station. One MDA volunteer, Avi Schteiglitz, told of many incidents when paramedics were called to the entrance of the village in order to treat people.
"Once we were called to treat a child who had been hit in the eye with a rock. We put him on the ambulance on the village side of the crossing, but the army wouldn't let us cross right away. After a while, we received permission and arrived at Tel Hashomer hospital, where the boy received treatment."
A month and a half later, the boy's father called Schteiglitz and invited him to a feast in honor of the boy's recovery. "I didn't go to the feast because I don't enter the village for security reasons, but I arrived outside the village and met with the family, and it was very moving for everyone."
It's amazing what you can do out of the reach of the terrorist leadership of the PA on the one hand, and the appeasement government of Kadima on the other.
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and what happens outside of the purview of the MSM who would never report a story like this.
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