Palestinian children contribute 1000 olive & fruit trees to villages
The Palestinian news agency WAFA said that "The Palestine Children's Welfare Fund (PCWF) has contributed 500 olive trees and 500 fruit trees to the villages of Atoof and Tammoun in the West Bank."
The Palestine Children's Welfare Fund is an enterprise that was established by a group of individuals whose goals are to improve the living standards of the children of Palestine in the refugee camps inside Palestine. The group aims to provide the children of the refugee camps with better educational opportunities, health facilities.CWF works throughout Europe, Canada and the United States and operates its financial and social work from Palestine to ensure that our work is based in the place where it is needed the most to reach the children of Palestine, the organization says.
PCWF said that Atoof land was seized by the Israeli occupation authorities that constructed three agricultural settlements and four military camps.
"Forestation is a strong barricade against the Israeli cupidity, especially after including the area in the map of the Apartheid Wall that will pass 200 meters to east of the school of the village and a large area of its land," PCWF added.
The report said that: Atoof is a Palestinian village situated in the south eastern area of Nablus and in the east of "Tammoun" its population about 12 thousand persons and an area of 98 thousand Dunums ( 25 000 acres) reaching the Jordan River. Israeli occupation forces prevents the farmers from reaching their farms and continuing breeding their goats in the surrounding area.
