South African Christians are donating two emergency rapid response vehicles for use in Israeli communities near the border with Gaza, in a repudiation of their government’s policies towards the Jewish state.

The faith-based move comes at a time when South Africa has emerged as one of the most active opponents of Israel around the globe, having taken it to the U.N.’s International Court of Justice on genocide charges over the nearly year-old war against Hamas in Gaza and squarely allied itself with Iran and its terrorist proxies.

The vehicles will be donated to the Magen David Adom rescue service next month for use in communities that came under ground attack during the Oct. 7 invasion in which Hamas-led terrorist killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, wounded thousands of others, and triggered the war.

“The name of South Africa has been tarnished by the ANC government over a protracted period, particularly after the October 7 attacks, but there is a lot of support for and admiration of Israel in South Africa based on Judeo-Christian values,” Chris Edens, the head of the South African office of the evangelical organization Bridges for Peace, which is behind the initiative, told JNS on Thursday.