But Hammas doesn't really have preservation of life as a goal. They have one goal, which makes it a lot easier for them to see it to the end, whatever that end turns out to be. That Israel would walk into that just shows how predictable the Israeli warmongers are. It also shows Israel is leveraging this situation for their other goals.
When were the most recent hostages actually rescued? According to this, it was February 12th.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel...risis#Timeline
Now, plenty more bombs have been dropped and people killed since then. So either the IDF are absolute #### at their job, or it isn't really much of goal. Because once they hostages are all "rescued" the "release the hostages" demands hold no weight, an Israel has even less justification to carry out their plans.