the village was in the territory allotted to the arab state under the 1947 un partition plan. like many arab villages, it had a non-aggression pact with nearby jewish communities. in the early months of the 1948 arab-israeli war, the villagers provided the jewish militia haganah with intelligence and ammunition in return for an agreement to not enter the village or harm the inhabitants. on the other hand, some of the villagers joined in the march 1948 attack on the jewish convoy to kibbutz yehiam in which 47 haganah soldiers were killed.