Mas'ha

Mas-ha
Other transcription(s)
• Arabic	مسحة
Mas'ha, seen from Elkana
Mas-ha Location of Mas-ha within the Palestinian territories
Coordinates: 32°06′28″N 35°03′06″E / 32.10778°N 35.05167°E / 32.10778; 35.05167Coordinates: 32°06′28″N 35°03′06″E / 32.10778°N 35.05167°E / 32.10778; 35.05167
Palestine grid	155/168
Governorate	Salfit
Government
• Type	Village council
Population (2007)
• Jurisdiction	2,003
Name meaning	"Gravelly soil"

Mas-ha (Arabic: مسحة‎‎) is a Palestinian village located in the Salfit Governorate in the northern West Bank, 37 kilometers southwest of Nablus. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, it had a population of 2,003 in 2007.

Potsherds from the Byzantine, Byzantine/Umayyad, Crusader/Ayyubid and Mamluk era have been found.

Potsherds from the early Ottoman era have also been found. Masha appeared in 1596 Ottoman tax registers as being in the Nahiya of Jabal Qubal of the Liwa of Nablus. It had a population of five households, all Muslim, and paid taxes on wheat, barley, summercrops, olive trees, occasional revenues, goats and beehives, and a press for olives or grapes.

French explorer Victor Guérin passed by the village in 1870, and estimated it as having about 300-350 inhabitants, and fig-tree lined borders. In 1882 the Palestine Exploration Fund's Survey of Western Palestine (SWP) described Mes-ha as "a good-sized village, with a high central house, but partly ruinous. It is supplied by cisterns, and the houses are of stone."

In a census conducted in 1922 by the British Mandate authorities, Mas-ha (called: Masha) had a population of 80, all Muslims, while in the 1931 census it had 20 occupied houses and a population of 87, again all Muslim.