Archaeological findings around the village included the remains of towers, fortresses, wells, reservoirs, cisterns, and pottery.

[6] The village site contained Castellum Rogerii Langobardi, the castle of Roger the Lombard, built by the Crusaders.

[13] In the 19th century, Umm Khalid was a rest area between al-Tantura and Ras al-Ayn, where Ottoman officials stopped and received dignitaries.

The place is famous for its water melons, which are shipped at the little harbour called Minet Abu Zabura.

Walid Khalidi speculates that the village was located in an area which was regarded by the Zionist leadership as the core of the planned Jewish state and would therefore have been desirable that the Arab residents were made to leave before 15 May.

We were not allowed to return....Jews killed many people in Mlabis and in many other places....What did they do in Dayr Yassin?...I thank God we left before they entered the village.

[5] In 1997, bulldozers leveling ground for a school building in Netanya uncovered remains of the cemetery of Umm Khalid.

The Aqsa Association for the Preservation of Consecrated Islamic Property petitioned the High Court of Justice.

As a result, the city of Netanya agreed to halt work in the area which had not been damaged, and to put up a sign: "Here is the Muslim cemetery of the village Umm Khalid."