This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Iskaka (Arabic: إسكاكا) is a Palestinian town in the Salfit Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the northern West Bank, 27 kilometers southwest of Nablus.

[7] Iskaka was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517 with all of Palestine, and in 1596 it appeared in the tax registers under the name of Skaka, as being in the nahiya ("subdistrict") of Jabal Qubal, part of the Sanjak of Nablus.

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.

[10] In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village with a population of 27 households in the nahiya (sub-district) of Jamma'in al-Awwal, subordinate to Nablus.

[11] In 1882, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Iskaka as: "a small village with ruined towers and rock-cut tombs, surrounded by olives and standing on high ground.