 In the 1922 census of Palestine, during the early British Mandate of Palestine period, there were 120 villagers, all Muslims, increasing in the 1931 census to 177 Muslims, in 41 houses.The villagers planted olive trees and vineyards, which grew mainly west of the village and on the valley floors, and irrigated their crops with water drawn from the village springs.Olive trees covered 194 dunum of land.