Planting trees in Palestinian lands to help farmers has been coupled with efforts to maintain, provide or increase water supplies diminishing as a result of Israeli diversion of more water amounts from Palestinian villages to Israeli settlements.

APN and Al-Nahda Rural Society worked to construct a water collection well on a land of a farmer with 24 household members in Beit Sureek, in the Jerusalem area. The village is surrounded by three Israeli settlements and lies 50 metres from Israel’s Separation Wall.

An agricultural well with an 80 cubic meter capacity was also constructed in Khirbet Hamdan-Beit Eksa on a land where five families with 40 members live. Beit Eksa lies 10 km northwest of Jerusalem.A 3rd collective well with 80 cubic meter-capacity was constructed to serve an 8-dunum land owned by a farmer in Burqa, in Nablus governorate. The village is surrounded by four Israeli settlements and around a third of its lands have been seized by Israel.