Israeli democracy is wild.
On the one side you have hostage families calling for peace at literally ANY price. Life is THE Jewish thing, and if you can save one, you’re obligated, over the interests of the State.
On the other side, you have the vast majority of Israelis who want ham ass dead. The ham ass attack demonstrated a permanent existential threat to Jews, and they intend to kill at least this generations’ worth of terrorist baby roasting rapist kidnapping murderers.
Imagine it's 1945, and if Jews were calling on the Allies to leave Hitler alone, to save what few were still alive in the death camps.