Isreal has a principle: they do not leave their people behind. Their genocidal terrorist neighbors took advantage of that promise by kidnapping their people, hiding them behind human shields. Israel vowed to get them back at any cost, and that cost was not only acceptable to Hamas, but since they actually believe in martyrdom, desirable. It allowed them to decry Israel as the evil ones, recruiting simpletons in the West who ate up their propaganda, becoming their useful idiots, even as they shot their own people to prevent them from escaping harms way. Israel refused to be terrorized, they did not yield to the demented tactics of the death cult calling for their annihilation. At a terrible cost, no one denies.