The village appeared under the name of "Melebbes" on Jacotin's map drawn-up during Napoleon's invasion in 1799, while it was called "el Mulebbis" on the map of Southern Palestine that Heinrich Kiepert published in 1856. The village was repopulated following Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt's expedition to the Levant (1831-1841) by Egyptian emigrants belonging to the Abu Hamed al-Masri Clan, as part of a wider wave of migration that settled in Palestine's coastal lowlands.