Khirbet Qarqash in Salfit province suffers from the Israeli occupation’s greed and the absence of a clear vision to protect it from abusers.
Drawings of the sun and the moon are visible at the main entrance of Khirbet Qarqash (it is also known as the Sun and the Moon hamlet) which is located to the northeast of Bruqin village to the west of Salfit. It has two parts: the upper and the lower. The upper part includes a residential area caves water wells quarries ponds olive and grape mills and a mosque while the lower part contains tombs and cemeteries.
Khirbet Qarqash contains forts ponds and paths carved into rocks in addition to artistic sculptures engraved on columns and unexplored underground traces. The level of water in its ponds reaches between 6 to 7 meters.
It also has a cave that leads to small crypts that were used as tombs for kings and princes in ancient times. Inside each crypt there is another crypt or a small pond where food was presented to the dead based on the belief that there is another life after death.
Khirbet Qarqash lives in tranquility that is only disturbed by the noise coming from an Israeli iron factory that is located a few meters away and belongs to Ariel settlement which keeps expanding on the lands of Qarqash and other lands in Salfit province.
