Kharbatha al-Misbah

This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Kharbatha al-Misbah (Arabic: خربثا المصباح) is a Palestinian town in the central West Bank, located 12.5 kilometers (7.8 mi) west of Ramallah in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate.

[8][9] In 1863, Victor Guérin found 400 inhabitants, along with ruins identified as the remains of a Christian church.

[10] Albert Socin found an official Ottoman village list from 1870 that shows Charabta, in the Lydda district, had a population of 194 living in 71 houses, although the count included only men.

"[13] In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Kherbet al-Mesbah had a population of 369, all Muslim.

After the 1995 accords, 19% of village land was classified as Area B, while the remaining 81% was classified as Area C. Israel has confiscated 61 dunams of village land in order to build the Israeli settlement of Beit Horon.