I don’t think I’m being naive because Hamas has let go over 100 hostages in return for Israel letting go their administrative detainees and prisoners that were also women and children. The vast majority of hostages that Hamas has let go were women and children The only hostages that were men that were let go by Hamas were not Israeli hostages, but 3rd country foreign hostages.
I don’t understand why you think Hamas would not have let go the rest of hostages when they have already let go hostages if the ceasefire had continued. Even with the fighting having been resumed by Israel, they continue to indicate willingness to do so. Their announcements since the resumption of Israeli attacks have been no more hostage releases until Israel agrees to another ceasefire.
The one week ceasefire collapsed over an argument over letting go adult male civilian hostages before letting go adult female soldiers. Female soldiers captured during the Israeli attacks on military installations and inside Gaza are not hostages, they are legally and technically POWs. It did not collapse due to Hamas refusing to let go hostages, it collapsed over Israel wanting soldiers, POWs, back before hostages because they are women.
If Israel had just agreed with hostages first, then POWs which by the way is the norm in armed conflicts. Civilians always come before POWs. If Israel had agreed, then the male civilian hostages would likely all have been released by the end of this week and we would have seen the negotiations move on to releasing female soldier POWs, the first of whom would have likely been home by this weekend. By breaking off the ceasefire, Israel scuppered their chances for this and made it far more likely those female POWs will be sexually abused more than they were as the fighting grows more desperate. As Hamas terrorists lose their own men to the intense urban fighting, the surviving armed men will go back to their terror nests and they will take out their rage on the women POWs. In addition, we cannot ignore the danger of friendly fire. The hostages and POWs are now more likely to be killed by friendly fire given the intensity of the bombing and on ground tank shelling and fighting.
I understand Israel thought this stance was unreasonable to let male hostages go before female POWs, but the alternative they chose from continuing the hostage/prisoner releases was a choice to sacrifice the health and most likely, lives of male hostages and all POWs, male and female.
This choice has also massively reduced international support for Israel’s ongoing attacks on and in Gaza as well as the West Bank because not only has Israel sacrificed Israelis, its military is nowhere near adequately protecting Palestinian civilians as it battles Hamas.