It is located in the Upper Galilee on the northwestern slopes of Mount Meron, south of the Lebanese border.

[12] In 1220 Jocelyn III's daughter Beatrix de Courtenay and her husband Otto von Botenlauben, Count of Henneberg, sold their land, including Fassove, to the Teutonic Knights.

[16] In 1875, Victor Guérin found "twenty united Greek families" living in the village which had been built on an ancient site, of which there were many remains.

[17] In 1881, the PEF's "Survey of Western Palestine" (SWP) described Fassuta as "a village, built of stone, containing about 200 Christians, situated on ridge, with gardens of figs, olives, and arable land.

[21] In the 1931 census, the combined population of Fassuta and Mansura was 507 Palestinian Christians and 81 Muslims, living in a total of 129 houses.

In December 1949 the Israel Defense Forces devised a plan to create a 5–10 km Arab-free zone along the Lebanon border by ordering those who remained in Fassuta and five other villages to leave.

In April 2023, a resident of Fassuta was injured in a rocket attack from Lebanon attributed to the militant group Hamas.

[33] In 1875, Victor Guérin found "numerous cisterns, a great reservoir, vestiges of many ruined houses, fine cut stones marking out floors, and a dozen of winepresses nearly perfect.