on 31 july 2015 a 15-year-old resident was shot dead by an idf sniper after allegedly throwing a firebomb at an army outpost. in april 2019, the village was attacked a fatah official and his gunmen, a number of whom made demands that the village’s christian residents pay the medieval jizya tax, in response to the police questioning of his son for allegedly assaulting a christian woman from jifna and her children. the incident did not result in casualties and was condemned by palestinian government and church officials.<ref>