Ottoman era In 1517, the village was incorporated into the
Ottoman Empire with the rest of
Palestine, and in 1596, Kafr Tult appeared in Ottoman
tax registers as being in
nahiya (subdistrict) of Jabal Qubal under the ''
liwa''' (district) of
Nablus. It had a population of 13 households and 1 batchelor, all Muslims. They paid a fixed tax rate of 33.3%, on
wheat,
barley, summer crops, occasional revenues, goats and/or beehives; a total of 1,100
akçe. In 1838, Kafr Thulth was included in a village list drawn up by
Edward Robinson, part of
Jurat Merda, south of Nablus, named as
Kefr Telet. In 1852, Robinson described Kafr Thulth as "a ruin", and the same did
Victor Guérin in 1870. However, later researchers have noted that both only saw Kafr Thulth from a distance, and might have had it mixed up with the original location of
Kufr Qara, which became abandoned and transferred together with its name to the Wadi 'Ara area in northern Israel. In 1870/1871 (1288
AH), an Ottoman census listed the village in the
nahiya (sub-district) of Jamma'in al-Awwal, subordinate to Nablus. In 1882 the
PEF's
Survey of Western Palestine described the village (called
Khurbet Kefr Thilth) as "a small village on high ground, with two wells. It was in ruins in 1852, but has now a few inhabitants, the ground round is rough and uncultivated."
British Mandate era In the
1922 census of Palestine conducted by the
British Mandate authorities,
Kufr Thelth had a population of 643, all
Muslims, while in the
1931 census Kafr Thulth, (including Khirbat Khris), had 169 occupied houses and a population of 955, still all Muslim. In the
1945 statistics the population of Kafr Thulth was 1290 Muslims.
1967-present Since the
Six-Day War in 1967, Kafr Thulth has been under
Israeli occupation. After the
1995 accords, about 10.7% of the land was classified as
Area B, the remaining 89.3% as
Area C. Israel has confiscated 367
dunums of village land for the construction of the
Israeli settlements of
Karne Shomron, Ginot Shomron,
Ma'ale Shomron and
Emmanuel, as well as for the construction of the
Israeli West Bank barrier. In a separate incident on 28 December 2025, a Palestinian man from Izbat Salman (Qalqiliya Governorate), a subsidiary of Kafer Thulth, fell while attempting to cross the Barrier near the town of
Ar Ram. He was taken to a hospital in Israel, where he was later pronounced dead. Israeli forces subsequently withheld his body; the case was not included in the total number of Palestinians reported as killed by Israeli forces. == Sanctuaries ==