Hamas won't release them, and the IDF wouldn't stop even if they did. Neither party has any advantage at stopping the conflict right now. The current state of a

Hamas won't release them, and the IDF wouldn't stop even if they did. Neither party has any advantage at stopping the conflict right now. The current state of affairs has much bearing to the initial terroristic attack as the killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand had with the entirety of WWI.