In 2014 Israeli military authorities announced they would confiscate a further 3,167 acres of Beit Iksa lands, leaving the township, according to the village head, Saada al-Khatib, as a 2,500-dunum area.

[5] Beit Iksa is a Palestinian village located 6.5 kilometers (4.0 mi) (horizontally) north-west of Jerusalem.

Beni Zeid settlers from the north who obtained permission for the site gave the village a new name, Beit Iksa.

[8] Beit Iksa lies on one of the historical routes that joined the Mediterranean coastal plain with Jerusalem, and archeological excavations conducted south of the village have yielded remains from the Hellenistic, Early Roman, late Byzantine and Umayyad periods, which the archaeologists believe belonged to an ancient settlement close by on the southwest outskirts of Beit Iksa.

The inhabitants paid a fixed tax rate of 33.3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, olive trees, vineyards, fruit trees, orchard, goats or bee hives, and a press for olives or grapes; a total of 18,000 akçe.

[15][16] According to Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau, he was informed in 1874 that the inhabitants belonged to the Beni Zeid tribe and that the village earlier had been named Umm el Ela.

[7][17] In 1883, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described it as a "village of moderate size, with stone houses, and a well on the north, near which is a tree sacred to an otherwise unknown prophet, Nabī Leimûun.

[29][5][4] The majority of the present population came to the village as refugees in the wake of the Six Day War, when its original inhabitants were forced to flee.

In November 2014, Israeli authorities delivered a notification to the village, declaring the intention of confiscating 12,852 dunums (3,176 acres) of their land, including the areas of Haraeq al-Arab, Thahr Biddu, Numus, and Khatab.

[30][31] In February, 2024, the Israel Border Police at the checkpoint opened "insane, indiscriminate gunfire" killling a 4 year old girl from Beit Iksa.

[31] According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), Beit Iksa had a population of approximately 1,600 inhabitants in mid-year 2006.

[24] However, following Israel's occupation after the 1967 Six-Day War, Beit Iksa counted 633 inhabitants, due to the number of residents that fled the village.