The village was attacked by Israeli forces on 30 October 1948. The residents fled when they heard of the massacres perpetrated the night before at Safsaf and Jish. When the Brigade units, which committed a number of atrocities during the operation, reached al-Ras al-Ahmar, they found it empty of its inhabitants. The villagers probably went to Lebanon, like most of the population of the northern Galilee. Some houses still remain. The nearby settlement cultivates some of the surrounding land and uses the rest for grazing.