In occupied Palestine, the Jewish National Fund (JNF) replaced ninety per cent of the native forests with European trees to erase the Palestinian identity.

Over 800.000 olive trees have been uprooted since the beginning of the Nakba in 1948.

The number of destroyed orange trees is not declared.

Since 1948, the Israeli government has used “afforestation,” or the planting of trees, to uproot Palestinian communities like Atir, to forcibly limit the growth of others, and to hide evidence of yet others already destroyed.

Altogether, the JNF boasts of planting 250 million trees in Israel and continues to prominently solicit donations to plant more on its website.

Source:

Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe’s The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

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The Yale Review of International Studies