It was occupied on 30th of October 1948.  On 15 of February 1948, the Palmach Third Battalion killed 15 villagers including 5 children and the destruction of 15 village houses. Another unknown massacre occurred in Sa’as’ during occupation on the handed of the terror gangs of Sheva’ (Seventh) Brigade.

The village has been mostly destroyed with the exception of few houses, some are deserted, and some are used by Jewish settlers. The refugees are mostly living in Naher al-Barid refugee camp near Tripoli (Lebanon), some are in al-Rashidyah refugee camp near Sour/ Tyre (Lebanon), and few refugees living in the village of al-Ghaziyah (mostly from al-Sayid clan) near ‘Ayn al-Hilwah refugee camp. The village had two elementary school, one school was for boys, and the other school for girls, one mosque. Some of the olive trees remain and a number of walls and houses are presently used by the settlement, one of them has an arched entrance and arched windows.

The population in 1945 was 1,130. The Arabs own 12,822 dunums meanwhile the Jews didn’t own anything.

Source: palestineremembred.com