Can stepper motor belt stand rotational torque if end drive is stalled?

I have a PTZ camera which I am wanting to modify/extend. It currently uses Nema 14 (I believe, see below*) steppers for pan and tilt approximating something like 14HS10-0404S*** from Stepper Online (again, see below*). The gear on the end of the motor is 14 teeth, the gear the belt is driving is a larger gear of 55 or 56 teeth. The larger gear mounts to the yoke (pan) or the actual camera enclosure (tilt). The belt** is 4mm width, 2mm pitch. I am wanting in some situations to intentionally be able to stall the system by holding the camera enclosure in a fixed position. Am I at risk of stripping or damaging the belt doing this? Or what about damaging the motor? I have observed that when the stepper is holding, I can rotate the camera (thus apparently overcoming its holding torque) without much effort.

I would like to know the ramifications of this with short term stalling (~ 1 minute) and prolonged stalling (> 1 hour).

* Numbers on stepper motors: 35HS25??F28DL-01, 35HS25??F28DL-02. ?? could either be "M" or "IVI" or ?

** Numbers on the belts: B77MXL 4, B116MXL 4 - I believe the 77 and 116 are the number of cogs.

*** https://www.omc-stepperonline.com/nema-14-bipola…es-14hs10-0404s

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