In an archeological survey conducted in 1968 several edifices and fences were noted; some pottery findings on site were traced to the Byzantine era and Middle Ages.

It was cut in a sort of sunken platform of the live rock, with a socket for a pole or pillar in the centre of the press.

While some of the satellites became permanent villages with communities of hundreds, others remained temporary settlements which served the shepherds and fallāḥīn for several months every year.

In a census conducted by Israel after it occupied the West Bank in the Six-day War in 1967, the village was reported to have 175 residents in 33 households.

[12] In 1994 a seven-member village council was established to administer the civil affairs of at-Tuwani and the nearby hamlets of Faqra and Tuba.

[14] In 2001, settlers built the outpost Havat Ma'on (also named Hill 833 or Tel Abu Jundiya) on the other side of the road.

[14] Since 2004, the human rights groups Christian Peacemaker Teams and Operazione Colomba (Operation Dove) monitor the settler violence in the Hebron Governorate.

[16] In 2004, it was reported that rotting chicken carcasses were found in a well at At-tuwani near Hebron in a suspected act of intentional well contamination by Israeli settlers.

[16] In February 2005, settlers from Havat Ma'on/Hill 833 attacked CPT and Dove members while accompanying shepherds and severely injured one of them.

On 18 July, 3 masked settlers armed with clubs attacked two shepherds and members of the At-Tuwani peace team.

[20] In January 2019, 15 olive trees were cut down, and "Death to Arabs" was painted on stones, in an apparent price tag attack.

On 27 September 2004, a joint team of CPT members and the international organization Operazione Colomba (Operation Dove) began escorting Palestinian schoolchildren on their way on the route to school.

[24] In 2008 settlers erected an automatic gate 300 metres (980 feet) from the junction at the chicken farm, where the meeting point used to be.

The Civil Administration didn't respond the many requests to build it, and declared the building illegal and stopped the construction work many times; in the end the Civil Administration issued a written document where stated the "future declaration of the construction permit".

Many people from the villages located south of At-Tuwani use this service, since the closest hospital is distant 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) and often there is a military check-point along the road.

The village is located in Area C (under the Oslo Accords) and is thus subject to Israeli jurisdiction for all civilian matters.

Most of the residents' houses and lands are not included in the Israeli Civil Administration's master plan for the region, submitted for authorization (yet to be legally endorsed).