"We later found out that Hamas had offered on October 9 or 10 to release all the civilian hostages in exchange for the IDF not entering the Strip, but the government rejected the offer.”
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Isreal had a chance to have every hostages returned mere days after the attack, but decided revenge and genocide were more important.
And if you're not seeing pictures of starving Palestinian's, it's probably because your right wing media bubble isn't showing them to you.