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He added, "It will be essential to ruin their crops now in the ground and prevent their planting more."

During the course of the Nakba, the removal of Palestinians from their lands was accompanied by the renaming of sites and often by planting trees on the sites of villages, terraced fields and olive groves.

This is one reason people suggest planting trees as a way of fighting climate change.

The findings do not mean that green spaces or tree planting in cities offer no climate benefits, Lee said.

“There has been an explosion over the last 10 or 15 years of plantings and those trees are coming online,” Zachary Fraser, president and chief executive of American Pistachio Growers, told the AP.