It was never about the kidnapped hostages, as is proven by how many of their own hostages Israel’s killed and all of the rejected offers to return ALL hostages. Israel’s been doing this shit for 75 years now and was WAITING for October 7th as an excuse to commit full scale genocide. They literally knew about hamas’s plans more than a year in advance, but let it happen anyways so that they could have a reason to point to when trying to wipe every last Palestinian off the face of the earth