AMMAN — Children wearing the traditional costumes of Palestinian farmers and others cloaked in Palestinian flags flocked to the Husna FM Radio building in the Jordanian capital Dec. 3, carrying with them monetary donations to help cultivate land in Palestine.

The donations from the children and their families came as part of the “Plant Your Resilience” campaign by the Arab Group for the Protection of Nature. Through a day of fundraising, the initiative invited the public to donate to cover the costs of cultivation and drilling wells to help Palestinian farmers whose lands are threatened with expropriation by Israel in the West Bank, Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. The campaign asked for donations in various amounts, such as $7 to cover the price of planting a single tree, $282 to plant trees in one dunam (about a quarter acre) of land and $70 to contribute to drilling a well costing $5,000.

“The campaign is returning for its third year to sponsor Palestinian farmers and promote their resilience. We hope to protect additional lands and villages threatened with confiscation by the Israeli occupation,” Mohammed Qateishat, the group's project director, told Al-Monitor.

“Over the past two years, the campaign succeeded in protecting approximately 2,000 dunams [494 acres] of land in [and around] Jerusalem from confiscation by Israel, whose land law allows the appropriation of uncultivated lands. The campaign was launched in this context while also supporting Palestinian farms by constructing wells,” he said. “During the previous two years, the campaign managed to secure 804 Palestinian farmers on their threatened land by planting some 51,000 fruit trees of various kinds and drilling 11 wells in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza.”