# Translation Shaqif was never merely a stone fortress overlooking the hills of southern Lebanon. For decades, the fortress located on a height overlooking the Litani Valley and Upper Galilee has transformed into a military and psychological knot in Israeli consciousness, to the point that Hebrew media has recently referred to it again as the "monster on the mountain," amid escalating talk of Israeli military activity near it and the possibility of returning to it. This expression did not emerge from nowhere, but from a long history of battles, losses, and withdrawals that made Shaqif a heavy symbol in the memory of the Israeli army, just as it is a symbol of steadfastness in Lebanese and Palestinian memory.