Since the 1995 Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, 10.7% of its municipal jurisdiction is under the civil administration of the Palestinian National Authority and the security of Israel, while 89.2% is under complete Israeli control.

[8][9] Qarawat Bani Hassan is identified with Qarawa, which late Samaritan sources mention as place of a synagogue built by Baba Rabba.

[6] About 1/2-mile SE of the village centre is Deir ed Derb ("The monastery of the road"[10]), described as "one of the finest sepulchral monuments in the country".

[11] The portico had a 50 ft long Doric cornice in front, and was supported by two Ionic columns and two pilasters.

[16][17][18] Kulat Ferdus is a tower, situated in the middle of the village, and named after a king whose tomb is to the south (beside Deir ed Derb).

The structure is situated on the foundations of an earlier building that featured columns and bases, corresponding to the church mentioned by both Guerin and the SWP team.

[24] In 1225 Arab geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi noted that Qarawat Bani Hassan was "a village in the District of Nablus.

"[25] In 1596, Qarawat Bani Hasan appeared in Ottoman tax registers as being in the nahiya of Jabal Qubal, part of the Sanjak of Nablus.

The villagers paid a fixed tax rate of 33.3% on various products, such as wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, goats and beehives, in addition to "occasional revenues"; a total of 2,000 akçe.

[6] In the 18th and 19th centuries, Qarawat Bani Hassan formed part of the highland region known as Jūrat ‘Amra or Bilād Jammā‘īn.

Situated between Dayr Ghassāna in the south and the present Route 5 in the north, and between Majdal Yābā in the west and Jammā‘īn, Mardā and Kifl Ḥāris in the east, this area served, according to historian Roy Marom, "as a buffer zone between the political-economic-social units of the Jerusalem and the Nablus regions.

On the political level, it suffered from instability due to the migration of the Bedouin tribes and the constant competition among local clans for the right to collect taxes on behalf of the Ottoman authorities.

"[27] In 1838 Kurawa Beni Hasan was noted as a Muslim village, in Jurat Merda, south of Nablus.

[23] In 1870/1871 (1288 AH), an Ottoman census listed the village with a population of 76 households in the nahiya (sub-district) of Jamma'in al-Awwal, subordinate to Nablus.

In 1986, the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Netafim was founded on land belonging to the Palestinian villages of Qarawat Bani Hassan and Haris.

In November 2014 Netafim began bulldozing and clearing further Qarawat Bani Hassan territory, under the protecting of Israeli troops, in a measure apparently designed to extend the settlement.

[39] In 2010 the Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority Salam Fayyad visited Qarawat Bani Hassan and was told about the lack of a paved road between the village and its land.

[44] According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Qarawat Bani Hassan had a population of 3,801 in the 2007 census.