Iqrit

Iqrit

إقرث
Iqreet, Akrith
Iqrit إقرث Iqreet, Akrith
Village
	Saint Mary's Church in Iqrit
	Etymology: from personal name
	1870s map 1940s map modern map 1940s with modern overlay map A series of historical maps of the area around Iqrit (click the buttons)
	Iqrit Location within Mandatory Palestine
	Coordinates: 33°04′32″N 35°16′31″E / 33.07556°N 35.27528°E
Palestine grid	176/275
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Acre
Date of depopulation	early November 1948
Area
• Total	21,711 dunams (21.711 km2 or 8.383 sq mi)
Population (1945)
• Total	490
Cause(s) of depopulation	Expulsion by Yishuv forces
Current Localities	Shomera, Even Menachem, Goren Gornot ha-Galil

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.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Khalidi, 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.”

[1] Palmer, 1881, p. 40

[1945p4-2] Department of Statistics, 1945, p. 4

[Hadawi40-3] Government of Palestine, Department of Statistics. Village Statistics, April, 1945. Quoted in Hadawi, 1970, p. 40

[4] Morris, 2004, p. xvii, village #69. Morris also gives cause of depopulation.

[Khalidi17-5] Khalidi, 1992, p.17

[Benvenistip325-6] Cite error: The named reference Benvenistip325 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[7] 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.”

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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)
Iqrit Location within Mandatory Palestine
Coordinates: 33°04′32″N 35°16′31″E / 33.07556°N 35.27528°E / 33.07556; 35.27528
Palestine grid	176/275
Geopolitical entity	Mandatory Palestine
Subdistrict	Acre
Date of depopulation	early November 1948^[4]
Area
• Total	21,711 dunams (21.711 km² or 8.383 sq mi)
Population (1945)
• Total	490^[2]^[3]
Cause(s) of depopulation	Expulsion by Yishuv forces
Current Localities	Shomera,^[5] Even Menachem,^[5] Goren^[5] Gornot ha-Galil^[5]