Iqrit
Abandoned village · Israel
- Abandoned
- 1950
- Founded
- —
- Population
- 490
- Coordinates
- 33.076, 35.275
Why it was abandoned
💥 War & expulsion
Detected automatically from the text: village of Mandatory Palestine, depopulated in 1948
History
Iqrit was a Palestinian Christian village, located 25 kilometres 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.