[10] In 1870 Victor Guérin found that Jalbun was divided into two quarters, with houses built of adobe.

[11] In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the nahiya (sub-district) of Shafa al-Qibly.

It is surrounded with plough-land, and built of mud and stone, and supplied by cisterns”," in the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine.

The Jordanian government strongly protested against unwarranted Israeli action and called the UN Secretary-General to notify the United Nations Security Council to take prompt and strict measures to return expelled Palestinians to their village, to hand back their looted belongings, and to compensate the villagers for all losses and damages.

[24] Among villages in the vicinity of Mount Gilboa and northern Samaria, the Dar Abu Rub clan is regarded as holy, with various folklore stories associated with them.