This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Al-Haditha was a Palestinian village in the Ramle Subdistrict.

ʽAddāsi may be a survival of either Ḥdšh or ʽdšh (nomen unitatis of ʽdšym “lentils”) if the gemination of the -d- and the legthening of -a- are secondary.

The disappearance of the laryngeals might have been caused by the Roman prohibition of Jewish presence in that area after the Bar-Kochva revolt.

[8] In the 18th or early 19th centuries, a feud broke between Bayt Nabala and al-Haditha as part of the Qays and Yaman conflicts in the area.

[9] In 1870, Victor Guérin visited and "at a quarter of an hour's distance south-east of Haditheh, [he] found several ancient tombs cut in the rock.

There are remains of a considerable town round it, tombs and quarries exist ; and the mound on which the village stands is covered with pottery.