The town and the surrounding villages were demolished and later recolonized by Arabs during the late 1960s. Most of the Arabs, however, returned to their original settlements after 2003.
History
A number of the town's village's, such as Badariyah, Bajilla, Malla-Birwan, and Kifre, were settled by Assyrians from the Tkhuma tribe and were destroyed during the Simele massacre.[3]