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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 1947 UN Partition Plan, it was seized and forcefully 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. All of its Christian inhabitants were forced to flee to Lebanon or the Israeli village of Rameh, after they were expelled by Jewish forces in 1948, and, despite the promise that they would be returned in two weeks' time, the villagers were never allowed to return. In 1951, in response to a plea from the Iqrit villagers, the Israeli 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 the previously Christian village on Christmas Day, 1951. Descendants to this day maintain an outpost in the village church, and bury their dead in its cemetery. All attempts to cultivate its lands are uprooted by the Israeli Lands Administration.
Checkpoint 303 is a non-profit musical collective from the emerging Arabic and Middle-eastern underground electronica scene. The activist musical project was launched by Tunisian SC Mocha and Palestinian SC Yosh in 2004 and has secured an avant-garde position on the Arabic underground music scene (see also tunisian underground music and palestinian underground music). The non-commercial aspect of this musical project is a fundamental dimension of the band's work since it allows for creative freedom and the liberty to express activist opinions. Checkpoint 303's compositions are inspired by the ongoing conflict in the Middle-east and the suffering it causes to the civilian populations throughout the region.
The name Checkpoint 303 was inspired by the Bethlehem Checkpoint 300 (one of numerous Israeli checkpoints restricting and controlling passage between the Palestinian self-controlled areas and Israel). A co-founding member of Checkpoint 303 lives and performs field recordings in Bethlehem.
They are young Palestinian men and women, citizens of Israel. They have been meeting for three years, imagining and planning their return to their destroyed villages. Project “Udna” or “Return” in English, aims to pass on to the younger generation awareness of the Nakba and create actual models of return. Descendants of the displaced from Iqrit are trying to return to their village. The Iqrit group pioneered the way for return and shows how you can realize the right of return.
A Short documentary about 3 generations of women from the depopulated village of Iqrit in Northern Gaililee. These internally displaced Palestinian women discuss what the Right of Return means to them and how the young people are resisting by reoccupying their village. Interviews done by YWCA of Palestine.
It's a different kind of Christmas in Iqrit, a small Christian village on the border with Lebanon that was destroyed in 1951 by Israeli forces. On December 25, its people, all displaced persons, commemorated the 60th anniversary of the day when they lost their homes forever.
Located in the Upper Galilee, 15 miles north of Acre, the Palestinian village of Iqrit spanned 25,000 dunams and counted approximately 500 residents in 1948. In November of that same year, the Israeli army invaded the village and vacated its residents, promising them that they could return in two weeks. This promise was never fulfilled and today, the original residents of Iqrit and their descendants are still fighting to go back to their homes. For more information, visit http://alternativenews.org
هذا الفيديو البسيط مهدى لجميع المهجرين اينما كانو... من إقرث العودة والصمود (تحديدا من انقاض بيت جدي سليمان-ابو العفيف-سبيت) الى كافة ابناء الشعب الفلسطيني والشعوب المقاومة على هذه الكرة الارضية. this simple video(dabke-palestinian traditional dance) is dedicated to all refugees and all people displaced from their homes around the world. from the ruines of my grandfathers house(Sulieman-Abu-Afeef- Sbait) in Iqrit's displaced village, to all the resisting people around the world... salam, love & solidarity. تصوير وموتاج اسكندر حلوة Eskandar Hillwi: filming and editing
Come back home, all refugees From the album "The Iqrit Files" Checkpoint 303, Jawaher Shofani, Wardeh Sbeit, Jihad Sbeit Kirkelig Kulturverksted. To purchase the album: www.kkv.no Samples include voice of welsh radio journalist Colin Edwards (Pacifica Radio Archives, 1972) Come back home, all refugees Our homeland is precious, so precious Hear the voice of Iqrit The blaming voice is loud Leave the voice of absence and come back home Iqrit is beautiful whenever we live naturally in it Oh woo, what else gives benefit to me, But my tears which are plenty We uncover our papers And they were all black Oh woo, I am a stranger here Please take me back to my homeland I will knock my wrists together Oh woo, my oil became less And my lamp has been extinguished يا مهاجرين إرجعوا غالي ال...
In 1948 // 1948 بسنة From the album "The Iqrit FIles" - Checkpoint 303, Jawaher Shofani, Wardeh Sbeit, Jihad Sbeit Kirkelig Kulturverksted 2015, to purchace the album: www.kkv.no Samples include the voice of Eleanor Roosevelt reading excerpts from the declaration of human rights, and in stark and ironic contrast, recordings from the vote on the UN General Assembly Resolution 181 on November 29th, 1947, on the so-called partition plan for Palestine, which denied Palestinians their right to self-determination and led to the Nakba. Lyrics: May God help and give hands To what happened to Palestine In the year ‘48 They came attacking us May God help and give hands To what happened to Palestine They expelled us from our houses Bare footed and almost without clothes May God help and give ...
Iqrit and the Illusion of Law & Democracy: A Case Study of Displacement & Inequality of Palestinians in Israel Capitol Hill Briefing 121 Cannon House Office Building 27 Independence Ave SE Washington, DC 20003 Thursday, October 15 3:00-4:30 PM The people of Iqrit, a small Christian Palestinian village in the Galilee in northern Israel, were forced out of their village in 1948, promised to return after two weeks, and have not been permitted to return to their homes despite a 1951 Israeli Supreme Court ruling, governmental promises, and Israeli ministerial committee recommendations. For the past 67 years, the Iqrit community has been united in a struggle for the right to return and has been engaged in one of the longest peaceful, popular and legal struggles for justice the region h...
688 - Servizio di Alessandro Belotti, riprese di Stefano Tresoldi - Le reliquie di Santa Teresina sono accolte dall'arcivescovo melchita Elias Chacour e dal parroco di Iqrit Souhail Khoury nella chiesa del villaggio di Iqrit, distrutto dal'esercito israeliano nel 1951 i cui abitanti aspettano ancora di poter tornare e ricostruire le loro case.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iqrit http://www.iqrit.org/ http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Iqrit/index.html In the end of October 1948 the IDF took the village Iqrit without any battle. After about a week, the inhabitants were told they have to leave, the pretext was security reasons, for two weeks only. They are not allowed to return ever since. Even though the supreme court ruled in their favour, the government does not hold the decision. A group of youngsters, 3rd generation refugees, have returned nine months ago. In the same day Iqrit was ethnically cleansed, nearby Shiite villages (Nabi Rubin, Tarbikha) were emptied as well, towards Lebanon. This was part of a plan to have a strip along the northern border without Arabs, Arabrein in German. To this day you have very few Arab l...
Unused / unissued footage - dates and locations may be unclear / unknown. UNO / United Nations Organisation Security Council Meeting at Lake Success, Long Island, New York. People seem to be speaking but we cannot hear anything during these first general views of the meeting. Natural sound starts and Dr LS Yange, acting Chairman of the Council, reads letters of application for hearing from Greece and Yugoslavia. A man reads a French translation of the letter. Soviet delegate Mr Gromyko makes speech in Russian in favour of Albania being admitted to UNO. Mr Hershel Johnson, the United States delegate, moves that the vote on Albania being adjourned until after the discussion on Albania. Proposal endorsed by United Kingdom delegate Sir Alexander Cadogan, if the application o...
Link to order this clip: http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675073208_UN-Security-Council_Stettinius_Herbert-Evatt_Gromyko_Muniz_Rajchman Historic Stock Footage Archival and Vintage Video Clips in HD. Meeting of United Nations Security Council at Flushing Meadows, New York. Officials and visitors seen in audience, during meeting of United Nations Security Council, in Flushing Meadows, New York. Cinematographers record event from booth above meeting hall. Andrei Gromyko of the USSR sits next to Polish delegate, Ludwik Rajchman. Press photographers take pictures of people in the audience, including two fashionable women in furs. Joao Carlos Muniz, of Brazil, is seen with bandages on his face. He chats with Australian delegate, Herbert Vere Evatt. USA delegate, Edward Stettinius is seen, n...
Virgin
I haven't always stuck by you
Even though you've been with me
And I've done things I wish you hadn't seen
And I have seen things I wish you'd didn't know
But because you fogive I forgive myself and let go
Jesus give me a virgin mind and a virgin soul
Make my heart so set on you that it can't let go
Take all the things I've seen wash me with your purity
Take all the things I've done cover me with your blood
I haven't always stuck by you
Even though you were with me
But now as I see you on the cross of Calvary
Can't bring myself to hurt you more
So now all that I'll do is only what you'd have me do
It's all for you
Jesus give me a virgin mind and a virgin soul
Make my heart so set on you that it can't let go
Take all the things I've seen wash me with your purity
Take all the things I've done cover me with your blood
I cry out to you and I repent
I cry with you and I repent
I cry out to you and I repent
I cry with you and I repent
Transform these bitter tears with your mercy
Jesus give me a virgin mind and a virgin soul
Make my heart so set on you that it can't let go
Take all the things I've seen wash me with your purity
Take all the things I've done cover me with your blood
Cover me with your blood
Cover me with your blood
Cover me with your blood