This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Farkha (Arabic: فرخة) is a Palestinian village in the Salfit Governorate in the northern West Bank, 30 kilometers south of Nablus.

[8] In 1517 the village was included in the Ottoman empire with the rest of Palestine, and in the 1596 tax-records it appeared as Farha, located in the Nahiya of Jabal Quba, part of Nablus Sanjak.

[4] In the 18th and 19th centuries the village formed part of the highland region known as Jūrat ‘Amra or Bilād Jammā‘īn.

Situated between Dayr Ghassāna in the south and the present Route 5 in the north, and between Majdal Yābā in the west and Jammā‘īn, Mardā and Kifl Ḥāris in the east, this area served, according to historian Roy Marom, "as a buffer zone between the political-economic-social units of the Jerusalem and the Nablus regions.

On the political level, it suffered from instability due to the migration of the Bedouin tribes and the constant competition among local clans for the right to collect taxes on behalf of the Ottoman authorities.

[12] In 1870/1871 (1288 AH) an Ottoman census listed the village with a population of 36 households in the nahiya (sub-district) of Jamma'in al-Awwal, subordinate to Nablus.

[13] In 1882 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Furkhah as: "An ancient village in a very strong position on a steep hill-top.