Israel Brief: Friday, October 31

Closure Without Calm — Israel buries its dead while the ceasefire keeps breathing through borrowed time.

Shabbat Shalom, friends.

The week closes with ceremony, not peace. Israel received two murdered hostages for burial while Hamas calls the gesture “goodwill.” The message from Jerusalem was defiant: if foreign force won’t disarm Hamas, Israel will handle it. In the north, the IDF is shifting tempo from precision denial to sustained attrition after confirm…