Jewish Voices for Peace Trees of Reconciliation
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Jewish Voices for Peace raised funds to plant 2,800 olive trees on land used by Palestinians. They will be planted by the Palestinian Fair Trade Association. These olive trees will replace the more than 700,000 trees that were uprooted with Caterpillar bulldozers since the second Intifada. Some were uprooted by settlers, but most were uprooted by the Israeli Defense Forces for settlement expansion or the separation wall. This is a wall that is being built through land Palestinians are living on, separating them from each other and agricultural land that they depend on for their livelihoods. The income earned from olive trees make up 25% of Palestinian income. They did not receive any compensation for the olive trees that were destroyed.
