This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Beit Liqya (Arabic: بيت لقيا) is a Palestinian town located in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the northern West Bank.

[6][7] It has been suggested that Beit Liqya is identical with Kefar Lekitaia, referenced in Lamentations Rabbah as one of the three stations set up by Hadrian to catch fugitives from Bethar during the Bar Kokhba revolt.

[8] Safrai, on the other hand, preferred to identify Lekitaia with Khirbet el-Qutt, a ruin located 1 km south of Al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya, where a Jewish ritual bath was discovered.

[12][13] The ottoman endowment deed of Hasseki Sultan's imaret in Jerusalem (1552) records the place name Manzalat al-ʽrmwy’t /Manzilit il-ʽUrmawiyāt/, “the camping ground of the ‘Urmawis (residents of 'Urma)", near Beit Liqya.

The place-name possibly carries the name of people originally from Khirbet el-'Ormeh[14] In 1838 Beit Lukia was noted as a Muslim village, located in the Beni Malik area, west of Jerusalem.

In the early 1950s, some people from Beit Liqya moved to Jerusalem after hearing about empty homes in the then-depopulated Jewish Quarter of the Old City, joining Palestinian refugees.

[28] UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan welcomed Israel's announcement that an involved IDF officer was suspended, and that a full investigation of the incident would take place.