This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Qatanna (Arabic: قطنّه) is a Palestinian town in the central West Bank part of the Jerusalem Governorate, located 12 km.

In the Roman and Byzantine periods, Qatanna was home to extensive settlement including agricultural institutions, roads, and many burial caves.

It had a population of 12 households, all Muslim, and paid taxes on wheat, barley, olives, occasional revenues, goats and/or beehives.

[6] In 1838 Katunneh was noted as a Muslim village, part of Beni Malik district, located west of Jerusalem.

[9][10] In 1883, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described it as a "small village in a deep, narrow, rocky valley, surrounded by fine groves of olives and vegetable gardens.

[4] In the early 1950s, some people from Qatanna moved to Jerusalem after hearing about empty homes in the then-depopulated Jewish Quarter of the Old City, joining Palestinian refugees.

After the 1995 Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, civil administration of 716 dunams of Qatanna's land (including the built-up zone) was transferred to the Palestinian National Authority.

[25] Both Mordechai Nisan and Tsvi Misinai cite stories that claim that although the people of Qatanna practice Islam today, they are originally of Jewish ancestry.