This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Bayt Shanna was a Palestinian Arab village in the Ramle Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine.

[5] A rarely documented variant in 16th century endowment deeds reads Bayt al-šunnāra /Bēt iš-šunnāra/ [53], "the place of the cat (or ‘of the partridge’)".

[7] In 1596, it appeared in the tax registers under the name of Bayt Sanna, as being in the nahiya ("subdistrict") of Ramla, which was under the administration of the liwa ("district") of Gaza.

They paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, vineyards, fruit trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 1,000 Akçe.

[10] In 1883, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine noted at Beit Shenna: "Traces of ruins and squared stones.