should be allowed to return home.

So what did Israel do?

On September 16, 1953, they bombed the village of Kafr Bir’im and flattened it.
Iqrit was destroyed two years earlier just after Christmas.

All because they were Palestinian Christians, and Jewish Zionists wanted that land.

🚨🇮🇱 WHAT ISRAEL DID TO CHRISTIAN VILLAGES — AND NO ONE TALKS ABOUT IT

In 1948, Israel forced the Christian residents of Kafr Bir’im and Iqrit in the Galilee to leave their villages. They never let them return.

The villagers went to court. And in 1953, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled they

my one other crusader fact is that they called the now-demolished galilean village iqrit <acref> but in leb they called batroun <botrun ~ boutron>

the f in acref is bc its original name, certainly its name during the crusades, was ʔiqriθ w/ an interdental whose frication they represented faithfully

in Iqrit where they would regularly camp out and host lectures, workshops and festivals, enacting their own right to return and defying the Israeli authorities who would regularly destroy what they had built. Amir says, “I love Palestine, I love the country. I was born here. My grandparents

The winery was reestablished in nearby Kufur Yasif in 2010 by Amir's father, Nemi, whose "object in life is to have a publicly recognized and legally secured way of returning to Iqrit” and rebuilding the winery there. As teenagers, Amir and his friends set up a semi-permanent autonomous zone

In 2024, Amir gave a talk at Waking Life festival with Yahav Erez on "why festivals should be a more political space." His family's vineyard, Ashkar, was in the Palestinian Christian village of Iqrit for generations until the territory was seized by Israel in 1948 and the villagers were displaced.

Helen is a member of our team. This is her family’ story of the Nakba, which is marked today. Over 500 villages were erased, and hundreds of thousands of people were displaced in “the catastrophe.” Iqrit was one of the destroyed Palestinian villages. (7/7)

Palestinian homes were leveled, stone by stone. Everything was flattened except the church and the cemetery.
Iqrit is still there and we return in caskets, in hearses, in final breaths.
But I refuse to let return be synonymous with burial.
Because Iqrit is not a graveyard. It’s a heartbeat. (6/7)

The story of Iqrit begins with a promise that was never meant to be kept.
On an autumn morning in 1948, Israeli soldiers marched into Iqrit and told the Palestinian residents to leave – “Just for two weeks,” they said. “For your safety. Two weeks, and you’ll return.” (3/7)

12:09 AM "In 1948" by 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝟑𝟎𝟑
from 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐼𝑞𝑟𝑖𝑡 𝐹𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑠 (Kirkelig Kulturverksted) #nowplaying

I read the petition. It insanely describes the movie:

“The film is an ahistorical and dehumanizing dramatization of Operation Iqrit and Biram, undertaken by the Black September Organization at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich in the name of the liberation of 200+ Palestinian prisoners.”

The Iqrit battle was not on Christmas day lol - cool story but false. The battle was in late October to November, and buildings still stand so. The villagers moved to Haifa and many live there as citizens to this day.

Whats happening in Gaza now reland grab by Zionist military, is very similar to what happened to #KafrBirim & #Iqrit (Two Christian Palestinian villages) the villagers expelled by Israeli military in 1948. They were told the expulsion would be temporary months became years.

Information on Iqrit, A Christian Palastine city A victim of genocide and colonization
www.opendemocracy.net/en/north-afr...

www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Iqrit/i...

One of my best friends from high school is a blond-haired, blue-eyed Palestinian, but her mom is from Mississippi, so she calls herself a Palesippian. (her dad's family Iqrit by way of Haifa - well by way of the the Naqba, actually).

dovev, where this attack occurred, was founded near the ruins of kafr bir'im, a village that was depopulated in 1948 by members of the zionist militia haganah. in 1953 it was destroyed by the israeli air force in defiance of a supreme court decision recognizing the villagers right to return

418 of the Palestinian cities, towns, and villages ethnically cleansed by the apartheid regime in 1948.