In 1875,
Victor Guérin found it to be a village inhabited by
Metawileh. He further remarked that the
mosque was constructed out of parts from an old
church. In 1881, the
PEF's
Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) found here "several
lintels and
cisterns." They further described it: "A small village, built of stone, containing about 100
Metawileh, situated on a hill-top, surrounded by figs and arable land; water supply from
cisterns and spring near, and a small birket.
Modern era During the
2006 Lebanon War, on the 10th of August,
Israeli missiles killed five women in the village, aged from 31 to 82 years of age. According to
Human Rights Watch there were no indications that
Hezbollah fighters were present at the time of the strikes. In October 2024 the IDF blew up a large underground complex at Rab Thalathin, said to have been in construction for a decade or more. The complex was capable of hosting 200 Hezbollah militants, and included computerized communications control rooms, supplies for months, ammunition on a battalion scale, RPGs, long-range anti-tank missiles, charges of various sizes, hundreds of rifles, and other tactical equipment. This was the largest ever engineered explosion by the IDF. ==Demographics==