[8] In 1859, the English Consul Rogers stated that the population was 350 souls, with 25 feddans of cultivation.

[14] In the 1945 statistics, the village had a population of 1,470; 1,450 Muslims and 20 Christians,[2] with a total of 22,156 dunams of land.

[4] In early May, it was reported that the women and children of Umm az-Zinat had been evacuated.

In August 1948 Israeli troops returned, with orders to kill any males and expel any females they found in the village.

The site itself is overgrown with thorns, bushes, cactuses, and pomegranate and fig trees.

Part of the surrounding land is used by Israeli farmers as cattle pasture and is planted with fruit and olive trees.