Under the slogan “Uproot one tree… we replant ten”, and in order to support the resistance of Palestinian farmers to hold on to their lands, Arab Group for the Protection of Nature with the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees (PARC) launched the project “Our Land, Our Identity”, which aims to cultivate more than 54,000 fruit seedlings across Palestine.

The launch of the agricultural activities saw a mass turnout of volunteers from various official and community institutions in Khirbet al-Mikhal, one of the first areas targeted by the project. The town is located on the road to the settlement “Dutan” and adjacent to the settlement of “Hermesh”, which has encroached on the town’s agricultural land. 

In the village of al-Naqourah, Nablus, volunteers of the Million Tree Campaign held their position in the face of the occupation forces who tried to prevent them from carrying out the cultivation of seedlings. The volunteers persistently continued their planting, refusing to be subservient and humiliated, in a show of pride and dignity toward the occupation forces with the message: “this is our land - uproot one tree, we replant ten.”

APN President Razan Zuayter said the outcome of the occupation since the al Aqsa Intifada has been the uprooting of more than 2.5 million trees and the destruction of more than 120,000 dunums of agriculture land. These actions are aimed at preventing farmers from producing, forcing them to neglect their farmland, thus making it an easy target for Israeli colonial expansion.