It was located 20 kilometres (12 mi) southwest of Tulkarm, south of Wadi al-Faliq.

In the 1860s, the Ottoman authorities granted the village of Kafr Zibad an agricultural plot of land called Ghabat Kafr Zibad in the former confines of the Forest of Arsur (Ar.

[5][6] This formed the foundation for Khirbat Zababida, In 1870, Victor Guérin noted it as an old, rather ruined hamlet, named Kharbet el-Belakieh.

It was located on a small hill, and had a path leading to a harbour, where water melons were being shipped out.

A picnic site has been built for Kibbutz Yaqum on the edge of a natural pond.