Kharbatha Bani Harith

This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Kharbatha Bani Harith (Arabic: خربثا بني حارث) is a Palestinian village in the central West Bank, located 15 kilometers west of Ramallah in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate.

The Arabic Kharbatha is derived from the Aramaic Ḫarbatā or Ḫarbata, a toponym also meaning 'the ruin'.

[4] Pottery sherds from Iron Age II, Persian, Byzantine, Byzantine/Umayyad and Mamluk era have been found here.

[7] They paid a fixed tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, vineyards, fruit trees, goats and beehives, in addition to occasional revenues; a total of 2,200 Akçe.

[11] In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Kharbatha Bani Harith had a population of 338, all Muslims.

[17] In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Kharbatha Bani Harith came under Jordanian rule.