The fourteen months between October 2023 and November 2024 marked the latest period of violence in South Lebanon. This subnational area of Lebanon has often overlooked preexisting dynamics and effects of contested control and violence that have been and continue to be reactivated by contemporary dynamics. Guided by theories and literature from historical sociology, subnational studies, and temporal analysis, this article combines and analyzes historical and contemporary evidence to call attention to the value and importance of historicizing and humanizing lived experiences in South Lebanon. It illustrates how the dynamics and effects of latest periods of violence cannot and should not be understood without engaging with how new “breaking” developments reactivate and build upon previous dynamics and effects, thus continually embedding themselves in the area’s relationship to space and time. The article does so in support of an overall argument that analysis of regional conflicts needs to take into better account the multifaceted and unique lived experiences of areas implicated by such conflicts.