More than a thousand volunteers and activists joined the launch event of the ‘Land is Ours’ campaign, part of the ‘Third Million Trees’ program adopted by APN to plant 4000 olive tree saplings in Palestinian lands including Jerusalem, Hebron, Bethlehem, Ramallah, Nablus, Qalqilya, Toubas, Jericho, Toulkarm and Jenin.

Initial cultivation includes:

1.  Planting olive tree saplings carrying the names of Palestinian martyrs in Jerusalem

2.  Tree cultivation south of Yatta in Hebron

3.  Tree cultivation in Sawaneh neighborhood on the outskirts of Jerusalem

4.  Tree cultivation in Sa’eer, Hebron

5.  Tree cultivation in Zaita village, and area badly affected by the separation Wall.

6.  Tree cultivation in Ein el-Beidah and bardalah

7.  Tree cultivation in Qariout village, near Shilo Jewish settlement in the vicinity of Nablus

8.  Tree cultivation in the area where Palestinian resistance fighter Izzedin al-Qassam fell martyr.

 The campaign was characterized by a unity of civil society groups and organizations including the Palestinian Voluntary Work Committee and the Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees, municipalities, local women’s groups, youth teams from different regions and foreign supporters. The volunteers, activists and their supporters managed to carry out the cultivation of the saplings in the lands threatened by confiscation, despite attempts by Israeli soldiers and settlers to stop them.