This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Baqa al-Hatab (Arabic: باقة الحطب) is a Palestinian village in the Qalqilya Governorate in the western area of the West Bank, located 20 kilometers southwest of Nablus.

[1] Baqa al-Hatab was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared in the tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Bani Sa'b of the Liwa of Nablus.

The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on various agricultural products, such as wheat, barley, summer crops, goats and/or beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues"; a total of 23,900 akçe.

[5] In 1882 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Baka (Beni Sab): "A well-built stone village in a conspicuous position on a bare ridge, with a few olives, and a well to the north; it is a small place.

According to local tradition, ash-Sheikh Ali a-Najdi came from the Najd region of the Arabian Peninsula, in modern-day Saudi Arabia, and arrived in the village during the 19th century.