Page "Umm Khalid" Paragraph 9

The British historian R. Esber interviewed refugees from Umm Khalid.

According to Ahamed ' Uthman, Zionist surrounded and blockaded the village in 1947, and continued into 1948 :" Jews did not allow any to enter or leave the village.

They did not allow us to sell or buy anything from outside the village ..... After a month of the Jewish blockade, some families left.

We had been awaiting the end of the blockade, but it would not end unless the people left ... They were shooting, but not heavily.

They shot from outside the village to make the villagers afraid.