Iqrit (إقرت)

Place

Museum of the Palestinian People (MPP)

Place Name

Iqrit (إقرت)

Place Description

A historic Palestinian village on a steep hill in the Upper Galilee, only a few kilometers from the Lebanese border and overlooking the surrounding mountain and coastal landscape. Its agricultural lands included cereals, orchards, and irrigated cultivation, with 1,888 dunums devoted to cereals and 458 dunums to plantation and irrigable land in 1944/45, while the village had wells, springs, and extensive uncultivated mountain lands.