Since then, Hezbollah has continued to design its attacks to stay below the threshold of a full-scale conflagration. The group has continuously pressured northern Israel, forcing an estimated 80,000 civilians to evacuate their homes (creating a political challenge for the Israeli governing coalition) and forcing the IDF to allocate limited air defense,

Smoke rises from a village in southern Lebanon after an Israeli airstrike on September 23. In the foreground, a field has been burned by Hezbollah rocket