[5]The village mosque, entered through a large gate with a triple arch, contains an inscription over the lintel dating its construction to the late Mamluk or early Ottoman period.

The inhabitants paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues and a press for olive oil or grape syrup; a total of 17,310 akçe.

[9] In the 1860s, the Ottoman authorities granted the village an agricultural plot of land in the Forest of Arsur (Ar.

[12] In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Beit Lid as a small village on a hill rising 600 feet above the valley south of it.

Agriculture was a major economic sector in Beit Lid, with olives, almonds, figs, grapes and grains being the primary crops grown on 16,753 dunams.

In July 2024, right-wing protesters demonstrated there after nine Israeli soldiers were detained at Sde Teiman detention camp for suspected torture and sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners.