It was depopulated during the 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine on April 1, 1948, under Operation Coastal Clearing, and was mostly destroyed with the exception of a single deserted house.

The village was home to the Desuqi family, descendants of Ibrahim al-Desuqi, an Egyptian Sufi leader who lived in Desouk, Egypt during the 13th century and founded the Desuqiyya order.

[5] Achaelological excavations have recovered ceramics from the Iron Age (c. tenth century BCE), and a sarcophagus from the Roman era.

[4] In 1207–08 the Hospitallers received from Lady Juliana of Caesarea the villages of Pharaon (Far´un) and Seingibis (Khirbat Nisf Jubail);[8] Phardesi marked the southern boundary of these lands.

[7] Fardisa 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% various agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and/or beehives in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 5,000 akçe.

[13] In the 1860s, the Ottoman authorities granted the village an agricultural plot of land called Ghabat Fardisya in the former confines of the Forest of Arsur (Ar.