 In the wake of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the village was divided in two.The southern part was in the Jordanian-annexed West Bank, while the northern part, originally in no man's land, was transferred to Israel with the signing of 1949 Armistice Agreements, and was later unilaterally annexed to Jerusalem by Israel.After the war, a section of the Jaffa-Jerusalem railway remained under Jordanian control.