Israel Brief: Thursday, October 30

Truce on Paper, Pressure in Practice — the frontlines hold, the covenant buckles, and the reckoning over service and sovereignty begins.

Shalom, friends.

The ceasefire is now a shape-shifter — quiet by day, lethal by exception. In Rafah, a Hamas sniper killed an IDF reservist and turned the “humanitarian corridor” into a combat trap; Israel answered with precision strikes on thirty targets, then holstered its guns long enough for diplomats to call it restraint. Up north, IDF raids in Blid…