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Tulkarem, West Bank – 13 January 2025
1. Sign, with text reading (English) "In memory of President Jimmy Carter – Planted by Palestinian Farmers Union- Treedom for Palestine, 2025."
2. Various of people planting an olive tree in a Freedom Farm in the West Bank city of Tulkarem in memory of President Jimmy Carter
3. Abbas Melhem, executive manager of the Palestinian Farmers Union, standing with kids next to Carter olive tree in the Freedom Farm
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Abbas Melhem, executive manager of the Palestinian Farmers Union:
"President Carter, who passed away leaving behind him a legacy, a legacy of a man who fought for peace, for freedom, for liberties, for fair and just for all people. And that legacy, we believe, will have been rooted among people, mainly in Palestine, because that sole leader was one of those only who stood firmly supporting the struggle of the Palestinians for independence and for freedom. He even described what the Israeli occupation is doing in Palestine as an apartheid system imposed on Palestinians."
5. Various of workers making fence at farm
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Abbas Melhem, executive manager of the Palestinian Farmers Union:
"Today, in memory of this president, we replant a 10 dunam (2.5 acres) area of land with 250 olive trees, supported with internal irrigation system and will be fenced from all borders to protect this land from any type of attacks, whether attacks from the settlers or attacks from wild animals."
7. Mid of George Zeidan, representative of Carter Center in the Palestinian Territories
8. Various of people planting olive tree
9. SOUNDBITE (English) George Zeidan, representative of Carter Center in the Palestinian Territories:
"I think this is the best way to commemorate President Carter’s legacy to the world and to the Palestinian people. He was a champion of climate change early on when it wasn’t popular. He built many houses, planted many trees, and I think planting olive trees that lives at least 100 years old like him is a very suitable way to honor his life and his legacy and what he offered to all of us."
10. People planting olive tree
11. Family watching
12. man digging to plants olive tree
13. Wide of freedom farm
STORYLINE:
In memory of late U.S. President Jimmy Carter, a grove of 250 young olive trees was planted Monday in the occupied West Bank by Palestinian activists and residents, who described Carter as a staunch supporter of the Palestinian cause.
The former president’s legacy is “rooted" among Palestinians and across the world, said Abbas Melhem, executive manager of the Palestinian Farmers Union, because Carter was one of the few world leaders who “stood firmly supporting the struggle of the Palestinians for independence and for freedom.”
The advocacy group, based in the West Bank, launched the project in collaboration with the U.S.-based nonprofit Treedom for Palestine.
Melhem said the 10 dunam (2.5 acre) grove in the city of Tulkarem, titled “Freedom Farm,” would be fenced in to protect it from animals or extremist Jewish settlers, who have attacked Palestinian olive trees in the past.
Carter, who died last month at the age of 100, brokered the Camp David peace accords between Israel and Egypt in 1978.
In his later years, he was highly critical of Israel’s rule over the Palestinians, saying that the situation in the West Bank amounted to apartheid.
AP video shot by Aref Tufaha
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