[3] It was probably depopulated at the same time as neighbouring Al-'Ubaydiyya, in the 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine.

In 1799, in the late Ottoman period, Um Junieh was noted as "ruins" on the map of Pierre Jacotin.

[8] In the 1880s the land of Khirbat Umm Juni and Al-Manshiyya was bought on behalf of the Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith.

What were to become Kibbutz Degania was established at Umm Juni, in part using existing Arab-made mud huts and for a while the Arab village and the Jewish one coexisted.

In the 1922 census of Palestine, there were 79 Muslim residents in Khirbat Umm Juneh,[10] while no number is available for Al-Manshiyya.