APN | Khirbet Atouf
1 November 2025

Khirbet Atouf, a hamlet of Tammun in Tubas Governorate, stands as a stark testament to the occupation’s systematic tactics of emptying Palestinian presence from their land, targeting agricultural villages as sites of life and resistance.

In this fertile part of the northern Jordan Valley, Palestinians rely on farming and livestock for their livelihoods, despite a colonial occupation intent on making life in the village unlivable. Over 80% of Khirbet Atouf’s land has been seized under the pretext of so-called “closed military zones”, designed to depopulate the area by linking settlements and military infrastructure.

Today, the hamlet is surrounded on three sides: from the east by the Beka'ot settlement, from the north by closed military zones, and from the west by the Ro’i settlement. This landscape reflects the geographic strangulation and demographic isolation policies that the occupation continues to intensify across the Palestinian Jordan Valley and historic Palestine more broadly.

Yet the residents of Khirbet Atouf continue to hold fast to their land, defying the occupation’s long-versed strategies to force their displacement. Farmers and herders pay a daily price for their steadfastness through harassment, demolition, eviction, and increasingly restricted access to their lands, but their resolve remains unbroken.

In response, the Million Tree Campaign (MTC) channels the critical role of agricultural resistance in both present and future: standing with Palestinians to remain on their land and feed their people in pursuit of food and political sovereignty. With the support of Ideal Solutions Company, 2,000 fruit trees were planted on the lands of Khirbet Atouf with a clear message: Palestinians will continue to plant where the occupation uproots and fight for their land as their land fights for them.