in 1917, during world war i, the ottomans were defeated by british and arab forces. after a brief period of military rule, jifna and its region came under the control of the league of nations british mandate, in 1922. in 1947 the united nations proposed the partitioning of palestine into separate jewish and arab states, with jifna being a part of the projected arab state. however, after the 1948 arab-israeli war the whole west bank region, including jifna, was annexed by transjordan to form the kingdom of jordan, and the arab state was stillborn. in six-day war in 1967, jifna have been under israeli occupation.