In July members of the NLL in Haifa contacted the Mapam party, asking them to pressure Israeli authorities to give a license to resume publishing the newspaper.

In the years after independence when Israeli Arabs were subject to military government, the paper was banned in some areas.

[8] In 1953 Al-Ittihad and its Hebrew sister newspaper, Kol HaAm, published a controversial article on the Korean War, which resulted in the Minister of Internal Affairs, Israel Rokach, ordering both papers to close for 15 days.

[11][12][13] Due to financial problems and the loss of senior reporters, the newspaper had moved to Hadash party headquarters in Nazareth, and then returned to Haifa to a building on HaMaronitim Road.

[1] In 2006 staff were preparing to return to its Al-Hariri Road location,[1] but the building was hit by a rocket during the 2006 Lebanon War and badly damaged.