TULKAREM, West Financial institution — Palestinian activists and residents of this northern West Financial institution city gathered on Monday to plant an olive grove in reminiscence of the late U.S. President Jimmy Carter, describing him as a staunch supporter of the Palestinian trigger.
Abbas Melhem, govt supervisor of the Palestinian Farmers Union, mentioned the ten dunam (2.5 acre) grove, known as the “Freedom Farm,” consists of 250 newly planted olive bushes. The farm is to be fenced in to guard the bushes from wild animals or extremist Jewish settlers, who’ve attacked Palestinian olive bushes prior to now, he mentioned.
Carter’s legacy “may have been rooted amongst individuals, primarily in Palestine, as a result of he was a kind of solely who stood firmly supporting the wrestle of the Palestinians for independence and for freedom,” Melhem mentioned.
The advocacy group, primarily based within the West Financial institution, launched the venture in collaboration with Treedom for Palestine, a U.S. nonprofit that promotes tasks to empower Palestinian farmers by planting bushes.
Carter, who died on Dec. 29 on the age of 100, brokered the Camp David peace accords between Israel and Egypt in 1978. In his later years, he was extremely essential of Israel’s rule over the Palestinians, saying the state of affairs within the West Financial institution amounted to apartheid.
