[1] In 1881, the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described it as: "A small village, built of stone, containing about 100 Metawileh, situated on hill-top, and surrounded by arable cultivation, water supplied from cisterns and birket.

UNIFIL lodged a complaint with the Israelis after their observers were prevented from entering the village to inspect condition of residents.

[3] During the 2006 Lebanon War, Israeli warplanes killed three civilians belonging to the Mukhtar´s family in the village.

[4] As of 2010, the village had approximately 3,017 residents, though only 400 lived in the settlement year round, rising to about 1,100 in the summer months.

Most of the remaining population had been displaced by the 2006 Lebanon War and had either settled in the southern suburbs of Beirut or were living abroad.