Dear Ibtisam,
My father has a friend named Subhi Abu Khalifah who did live in Iraq and is also from Izjim. My fathers nephew married the daughter of Abu Khalifah and moved to Saudia Arabia.
If you feel this may be a match or the number may help you please feel free to e-mail me at [email protected], please put in the subject heading the name Abu Khalifah so I know to open it. Thank you and good luck!

Salam,
My mother is from al-Damoun, and she was one of the lucky members of her family that didn؟t end in exile. She is 82 yrs old and we still live in Kabul village, about 1.5 miles east of al-Damoun. My mother has never stopped telling the stories of her life and her family while they were still living in al-Damoun until 1948. She is from Othman family that most of its members took refuge in the survived neighboring villages, such as Tamra, Kabul, and Sha'ab. My grandfather Ibrahim al-Othman died in 1966 without seeing his two married daughters who became refugees with their families in Lebanon and Iraq. We had the opportunity to hear about my aunt, Fatmah Darwish, the one in Lebanon, and we also met with few of her offsprings. However, we never ever had heard from my aunt Amnah and her family, who became refugee in Iraq. The name of my aunt husband is Muhammad Abu Khalifah.

The family of my aunt Amnah is from Igzim, a village near Haifa. The village was destroyed entirely in 1948 (actually bombed by the aircraft of Azer Weizzman, the former president of Israel, according to his confession in an election campign that took place at the University of Haifa in 1988). My mother is still hoping that one day she will hear from her sister's family that had no contact with for about 55 years now. My mother knows that her sister is a dead woman already. She never stopped blaming me that I am not making any effort to find out about her sister's family.

My concern is that my aunt's family has been going through a second circle of being refugees, and most likely they are in the camp that had been established recently in the border of Jordan due the latest American occupation to Iraq.
I would like to approach all of you in this site, if you have ever heard or known anything about Abu Khalifah family from Ijzim that lived until recently in Iraq to contact me as soon as you see this message.
Your assistance will be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks to Almighty Allah that finally I found some pictures to our old Ijzim.
My Grandma will be so glad to see them. I hope that she can recognize her house.
For now Id like to greet each member in this site and sure the webmaster also.
with best wishes to all Ijzims people and to all who walk on Palestine land and believe that he deserve to be there.

god bless plastinine people up the ira

That was a great day when I visited my hometown Ijzem in 1998. I saw the house where my mother was born and where my grandmother made the bread and set to coke.
Its a holy moment when I feel that I must settle in there.
We Must Return.

Dear all: I am originally from Ijzem where my father and grandfather were born. I would like to invite all the visitors of this website to visit my home page at www.AbuAjaj.com which contains useful links about Ijzem. Thanks a lot Khalid

Hello: This is my first time knowing any information about my village, Ijzim. Frankly, I did not know anything about it until today. Although I was born in Lebanon (far from Ijzim), but my grandfather was ethnically cleansed to Lebanon during al-Nakba. Frankly, I do not know if any of my relatives managed to stay behind in Palestine after al-Nakba, and I hope I could corrospond with any person from Ijzim. Currently, I live in Denmark and my email address is [email protected]. Please do not hesitate to drop me a line.