Or were some of the hostages much like some of the innocent Palestinians used as human shields by Hamas? Tunnels under hospitals? WTF. Continuing to fight a war when it results in 3/4 of your community being destroyed and over 35,000 deaths, nearly the whole population displaced and soon to suffer famine and desease? Sounds like the actions of a death cult.
A lot of the tunnels, were actually built by Israel before they left in 2005. Ehud Barak actually admitted that on CNN. Also the tunnels are necessary. There is a land, air and sea blockade in Gaza. They bring shit like KFC through those tunnels.
And here is the other thing. Human shields, are debatable, and using human shields is a war crime per international law. But killing human shields is ALSO a war crime per international law.
Also did you read a month or two ago, when 3 Israeli hostages escaped, stripped down to their underwear, held a white flag, and came out of the tunnel with their hands up - and the IDF shot them. EVEN if they were Hamas, why will Israel kill surrendering POWs? That is again a war crime and it shows you what they are doing.
And it isn't really a "war". Israel is using fighter jets against AK 47s? Is that a war? It is an assault on Gaza and the Palestinian people in an act of genocide. That is all it is. And the Israelis consider every single Gazan as Hamas. Per the Israeli President, "There are no non-combatants in Gaza" - when 70% of the population of Gaza are children, women and the elderly.
The bottomline is they have no conception of Palestinians as human beings and have ZERO value for life. They have no real value for life for their own people, because if they did they wouldn't be carpet bombing locations where hostages are being held - I mean what kind of strategy is THAT to get your hostages out? And they have even less regard - or I should say ZERO regard for Palestinians. That has pretty much been their mentality for the last 75 years.