Iqrit
Sign in to saveIqrit ( or إقرث, Iqrith; sometimes romanized as Ikret) was a Palestinian Christian village, located northeast of Acre, in the western Galilee. In October 1948, the village's Palestinian Arab inhabitants were expelled by Zionist forces during the 1948 Palestine war, and the territory later became part of the new State of Israel. All of its Palestinian Christian inhabitants were forced to flee to Lebanon or the Israeli village of Rameh, and, despite the promise that they would be returned in two weeks' time, the villagers were not allowed to return, and the Israeli army destroyed the village.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Iqrit
- Settlement.native_name
- إقرث
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ar
- Settlement.other_name
- Iqreet, Akrith
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- PikiWiki_Israel_8755_the_church_in_ikrit.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 250px
- Settlement.image_caption
- Saint Mary's Church in Iqrit
- Settlement.etymology
- from personal name
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Mandatory Palestine
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location within Mandatory Palestine
- Settlement.map_caption
- A series of historical maps of the area around Iqrit (click the buttons)
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 200
- Settlement.grid_name
- Palestine grid
- Settlement.grid_position
- 176/275
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Geopolitical entity
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Mandatory Palestine
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Subdistrict
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Article
23 sectionsContents
- History
- Antiquity: archaeological sites
- Crusader period
- Ottoman period
- British Mandate
- 1948 war
- Israel; struggle for return
- 1951 Supreme Court ruling
- IDF razes Iqrit
- 1952 verdict and expropriation
- Return attempts: 1970s–2010
- Since 2010
- Within the Arab–Israeli conflict
- 1972 Munich massacre
- 2023 war incident
- Present buildings and land use
- Israeli villages
- Iqrit vestiges
- Gallery
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Iqrit ( or إقرث, Iqrith; sometimes romanized as Ikret) was a Palestinian Christian village, located northeast of Acre, in the western Galilee. In October 1948, the village's Palestinian Arab inhabitants were expelled by Zionist forces during the 1948 Palestine war, and the territory later became part of the new State of Israel. All of its Palestinian Christian inhabitants were forced to flee to Lebanon or the Israeli village of Rameh, and, despite the promise that they would be returned in two weeks' time, the villagers were not allowed to return, and the Israeli army destroyed the village.
In 1951, in response to a plea from the Iqrit villagers, the Israel Supreme Court had ruled that the former residents of Iqrit be allowed to return to their homes. However, before they could, the IDF, despite awareness of the Supreme Court decision, destroyed Iqrit on Christmas Day 1951. Descendants of the villagers maintain an outpost in the village church, and bury their dead in its cemetery. All attempts to cultivate its lands are uprooted by the Israel Lands Administration.