The One Million Tree Campaigns (MTC), launched by APN founders in 2001, involves replanting trees on Palestinian lands razed by Israeli bulldozers in areas where Jewish settlements and bypass roads have been built or expanded in the Occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Thousands of acres of Palestinian agricultural land has been razed over the years by Israeli bulldozers, families have been displaced and vital transportation routes disconnected in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as Israeli occupation authorities continue to build and expand Jewish settlements and bypass roads. Nearly 1,500,000 trees were uprooted between the years 2001-2007, and most of these were olive trees: a vital source of food, income and culture for the Palestinian people. Israel’s building of the separation (Apartheid) Wall in the occupied West Bank in recent years has swallowed and destroyed significant acreage of Palestinian agricultural land. The MTC Campaign has been supported or adopted by many local, regional, and international institutions and civil society organizations, such as the Qatari Red Crescent, Eitilf al-Khair Charitable Organization, the War and Globalization Conference and the Students’ Committee at the British Leeds University.
