This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Kufeir (Arabic: كُفير) is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate.

Pottery sherds from the Byzantine (20%), early Muslim (50%) and the Middle Ages (20%) have been found here.

[4] Kufeir, like all of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the 1596 tax registers, it was located in the nahiya of Jabal Sami in the liwa of Nablus.

The inhabitants paid a fixed tax rate of 33.3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, and goats and/or beehives, a press for olive oil or grape syrup, in addition to occasional revenues and a tax on people from the Nablus area, a total of 6,702 akçe.

[8] In 1882 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) noted at El Kufeir: "Ruins of an ordinary village, with 8 or 9 rock-cut cisterns and 'rock-sunk tombs, as at Iksal.