The Outcome of Jordanians’ Donations... Supporting 20 Villages and Planting More Than 20,000 Fruit-bearing Trees in Jerusalem | The Arab Group for the Protection of Nature
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نتائج سخاء الأردنيين وتبرعاتهم..  زراعة 20 قرية وأكثر من 20 ألف شجرة مثمرة في القدس

As part of the "Million Tree" program in Palestine, APN implemented the "Plant Your Resilience 2" project in partnership with Al-Nahda Rural Society and Hosna radio station, with the aim of planting 20 villages in occupied Jerusalem. 

A total of 21,798 fruit-bearing trees, including olives, grapes, almonds, apples, pears, nuts and pines, were planted on 1,092 dunams owned by 334 families that support more than 2,029 family members. In addition to cultivating land, APN constructed 6 water wells.

Bassem Othman, a social activist in one of the villages of Jerusalem, said that APN's initiative supported Jerusalem farmers in preserving the land. He pointed out that the return of farmers to their lands and planting them with a variety of seedlings contributed to the lands’ protection against Israeli settlement expansion.