Israel Brief: Monday, October 27

Maps redraw themselves when the ceasefire does not. Gaza digs, Lebanon bristles, and Washington keeps trying to referee a knife fight with a clipboard.

Shalom, friends.

The quiet is getting noisy. In the south, the “truce” now runs through an American switchboard: every strike, convoy, and corridor requires signatures from both sides of the ocean. The IDF used that narrow lane last night—one precision hit in Nuseirat cleared by CENTCOM, framed as “not a breach,” and proof that Israel’s right to act stil…