The IDF denied it was creating a buffer zone. The IDF claimed it was only pushing back Hezbollah in order to prevent persistent attacks on Israeli residents of the North.

"What should have been done was not to deal with the tactical threat to Israel, Hamas, but the strategic threat, Hezbollah," Reichman University President Boaz Ganor told Maariv.

Elbit had logged 170 Palestine Action attacks against 37 companies since from July 2020 until November 2023.

Polls have shown that some 40% of those evacuated are considering not returning to the North, said Bezek.

Not all activist causes are treated equally, and by not cracking down on activists who cause millions in damages, the UK government is tacitly endorsing their cause.

The overall question the Shejaia experience raises is whether this will become another Jabalya or if more will be accomplished.

The Zaynab shrine has served as a center of pro-Iranian activity since the Syrian civil war began in 2011, and as such has been targeted by other groups.

Tehran “is fighting us on a seven-front war: obviously, Hamas, Hezbollah as well as the Houthis, the militias in Iraq and Syria, the West Bank, and Iran itself,” says Netanyahu.