This article may be in need of reorganization to comply with Wikipedia's layout guidelines. Please help by editing the article to make improvements to the overall structure.(January 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Village in Acre, Mandatory Palestine
Iqrit
إقرث
Iqreet, Akrith
Village
Saint Mary's Church in Iqrit
Etymology: from personal name[1]
1870s map
1940s map
modern map
1940s with modern overlay map
A series of historical maps of the area around Iqrit (click the buttons)
Shomera,[5] Even Menachem,[5] Goren[5] Gornot ha-Galil[5]
Iqrit (Arabic: إقرت or إقرث, Iqrith) was a Palestinian Christian village, located 25 kilometres (16 miles) northeast of Acre. Originally allotted to form part of an Arab state under the proposed 1947 UN Partition Plan, it was seized and depopulated by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and their territory later became part of the new State of Israel.[6] All of its 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. In 1951, in response to a plea from the Iqrit villagers, the Israel Supreme Court ruled that the former residents of Iqrit be allowed to return to their homes. However, before that happened, the IDF, despite awareness of the Supreme Court decision, destroyed Iqrit. 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.[7]
^Palmer, 1881, p. 40
^Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 4
^Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 40
^Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #69. Morris also gives cause of depopulation.
^ abcdKhalidi, 1992, p.17
^Cite error: The named reference Benvenistip325 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Gideon Levy and Alex Levac, 'Drafting the blueprint for Palestinian refugees' right of return,' at Haaretz 4 October 2013: "We return to our village only as corpses.”
Iqrit (Arabic: إقرت or إقرث, Iqrith) was a Palestinian Christian village, located 25 kilometres (16 miles) northeast of Acre. Originally allotted to form...
Palestine, especially from Al-Bassa, and some families from Kfar Baram, Iqrit, Haifa and Acre, most of whom are Christians. There are currently more than...
team, and took nine others hostage. Black September called the operation "Iqrit and Biram[dubious – discuss]", after two Palestinian Christian villages...
were allowed to remain while Muslims were driven out.[citation needed] At Iqrit and Bir'im the IDF ordered Christians to evacuate for a brief spell, an...
expulsion and demolition. Some villagers like those of Ghassibiya, Bir'im and Iqrit made petitions to the Israeli High Court to have their property rights recognized...
is located on the land that had belonged to the Palestinian village of Iqrit, as its inhabitants had been expelled. "Regional Statistics". Israel Central...
out of their towns, including al-Bassa, Ramla, Lod, Safed, Kafr Bir'im, Iqrit, Tarbikha, Eilabun and Haifa. Many Christian towns or neighborhoods were...
refugees from Lebanon back to the villages ... [p. 509] The case of Bir‘im, Iqrit and Mansura illustrates how deep was the IDF's determination from November...
the residents of Saffuriyya and the Galilee villages of Kafr Bir'im and Iqrit. Between Israel's declaration of independence on 14 May 1948 and the Israeli...
villages were depopulated, razed, and had their residents expelled, such as in Iqrit and Kafr Bir'im. Massacres of Christians were conducted at the villages...
30–31 none 7th, Carmeli, Golani, Oded Village depopulated and destroyed. Iqrit 490 October 31 none Oded Brigade Village depopulated and destroyed. Iribbin...
original on October 18, 2022. Retrieved November 11, 2020. "The lament of Iqrit and Kafr Birim". Archived from the original on 2008-12-04. "Contact Us « Rebuilding...
winery in Kafr Yasif is run by descendants of the Christian villagers of Iqrit. The Jascala winery is based in Jish. The wine is non-kosher and the producers...
village of Tarbikha. Its land had belonged to the Palestinian villages of Iqrit, Suruh and Tarbikha, all of which were depopulated in the 1948 Arab–Israeli...
expulsion order. Many Christians expelled from the captured village of Iqrit settled in Rameh. In 1954 a local council was appointed to administer Rameh's...
Palestinians of the two depopulated Christian villages of Kafr Bir'im and Iqrit. He alerted the Vatican and other Church authorities about the expulsion...
Palestinian villages of Iqrit and Kafr Bir'im. Rameh Some of the Population came from the Christian Palestinian villages of Iqrit. Tuba-Zangariyye Some...
the villages of Kafr Bir'im and Iqrit in Upper Galilee that had been depopulated in 1948, and then destroyed. Iqrit was the hometown of his second successor...
bastardized over the years, although many attribute it to the now and then Iqrit village, known in Hebrew as יוקרת (Yokereth or Yoqart). He was the Rabbi...
North Africa on the land that had belonged to the Palestinian villages of Iqrit, Al-Nabi Rubin, Suruh and Tarbikha, whose inhabitants were expelled during...
Global Information
1870s map 
1940s map
modern map 
1940s with modern overlay map
