One Year of Return, Iqrit, Israel, 12.8.2013

A graffiti of Handala, the most famous of assassinated Palestinian caricaturist Naji al-Ali's characters, seen on the first anniversary of the return of residents to the village of Iqrit, August 2012. Iqrit is a Palestinian Christian village, located 25 kilometers northeast of Acre. Originally allotted to form part of an Arab State under the 1947 UN Partition Plan, it was seized and forcefully depopulated then razed by the Israel army during the 1948 War, and their territory later became part of the new State of Israel. All of its Christian inhabitants were forced to flee to Lebanon and neighboring Palestinian villages after they were expelled by Jewish forces in 1948-1951. In 2011, residents decided to return to the village.