according to the palestinian historian walid khalidi, the 1948 armistice line separating israel from the west bank fell a short distance to the west of khirbat al-jawfa, cutting through the land of the nearby village of faqqu'a (in the west bank). the land of this village that was inside israel have been combined with the land that belonged to khirbat al-jawfa, making the two indistinguishable. the kibbutz of ma'ale gilboa, founded 1962, is located inside this amalgamated parcel of land, southwest of the village site.