Roughly 75 percent of the forests and agricultural Jewish settlements developed under the Jewish National Fund cover over 80 villages of pre-1948 Palestine.
In the establishment of Israel, the military forces of the Zionist Movement destroyed over half of the villages of Mandate Palestine and uprooted close to 800,000 Palestinians from the country. Some were killed, others were expelled or internally displaced. While the JNF brands itself as Israel’s ecological organisation, it is widely criticised as being a greenwashing tool for the Israeli government, covering the crimes of dispossessing and expelling the Palestinian population through its “green” initiatives.
The organisation has over 150 forests under its management and boasts of having planted over 240 million trees since its founding in 1901. A vast majority of the trees, however, are non-native conifers not suitable for the country’s environment.below, listing the Palestinian villages they were planted and built over along with the populations of the villages before 1948 and where they are located.
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