Aid my ass. They cut off food, water, electricity for 7 months. They deliberately targeted and killed aid workers from the WCK. Now after the US threw a fit, they are allowing aid trucks because they dont have a choice. Destroyed hospitals, schools, places of worship and literally razed Gaza to the ground. Deliberately targeted and killed 35,000 people, 10,000 buried under the rubble, 80K injured or maimed, with their politicians screaming for ALL Palestinians to be killed, which is intent to commit genocide. Which is what the UN special report and the ICJ verdict clearly lay out. So go try that half baked nonsense elsewhere.
But this is a digression.
I asked you a simple question. Israel had the choice to negotiate for hostage release, or genocide the Palestinians. Israel chose to genocide and rejected the hostage release. Which means hostages are not their priority, and they simply use hostages for propaganda purposes. You admit to this. Yes? Stop bobbing and weaving. Directly answer it.