The village was located 8.5 kilometers (5.3 mi) east of Jaffa, 25 meters (82 ft) above sea level, on uneven land in the central coastal plain.

[7] In 1596, under Ottoman rule, Saqiya was a village in the nahiya of Ramla, part of Sanjak Gaza, with a population of 49 households, an estimated 270 people, all Muslim.

They paid a fixed tax-rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, fruit and sesame, as well as on other types of property, such as goats, beehives and vineyards; a total of 14,300 akçe.

[8] The Syrian Sufi teacher and traveller Mustafa al-Bakri al-Siddiqi (1688-1748/9), who toured the region in the first half of the eighteenth century, wrote that he passed through Saqiya while he was on his way to Jaffa.

But according to the Palestinians and a telegram sent to the Associated Press noted that it was a few days later on 27–28 April, along with the Khayriya and Kafr Ana villages.

After that families started to leave separately... We left everything in the village... We thought it would be a short trip and we would come back.

One of the occupied houses has a large front door and a garret with a slanted roof extending along the short side.

In addition to the houses, there are truncated walls, the mud-brick foundation of a destroyed building, and other debris on the site.