Jarba

Jarba (جربا) is a Palestinian village in the Jenin Governorate.

History
Pottery sherds from the Byzantine (10%), early Muslim (30%) and the Middle Ages (30%) have been found at Jarba.

Ottoman era
Jarba, like all of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517. About 30% of the pottery sherds found in the village date back to this period. In the 1596 Ottoman tax registers, it was located in the nahiya of  Jabal Sami, part of Sanjak of Nablus. Jarba was listed as an entirely Muslim village with a population of 11 households and 2 bachelors. The inhabitants paid a fixed tax rate of 33,3% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, olive trees, and goats and/or beehives, in addition to occasional revenues and a tax on people from the Nablus area, a total of 1,500 akçe.

In 1838 el-Jurba was noted as a village in the District of esh-Sha'rawiyeh esh-Shurkiyeh, the eastern part.

In 1870, Victor Guérin noted it as a small village situated on a neighboring hill from Misilyah.

In 1882 the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described   Jurba as:  "a small village on the side of a slope, with olives to the south."

British Mandate era
In the 1922 census of Palestine, conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Jarba had a population of 31 Muslims,   increasing in the 1931 census to 65 Muslim, in a total of 17  houses.

In the 1944/5 statistics the population  was 100, all Muslims, with 3,530 dunams of land, according to an official land and population survey. 100 dunams were used for plantations and irrigable land, 1,553 for cereals, while 2 dunams were built-up (urban) land.

Jordanian era
In the wake of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and after the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Jarba came under Jordanian rule.

post-1967
Since the Six-Day War in 1967, Jarba has been under Israeli occupation.

Byzantine site at Nazlat Rahal
Just southwest of Jarba is Nazlat Rahal, where Byzantine ceramics have been found. SWP found at ''Kh. Haj Rah-hal'': "traces of ruins."