Why don't Hamas just release all the hostages?

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First time wading in here but reading this morning's developments, it says Hamas have offered to release 9 hostages in exchange for a 60 day truce and some prisoners.

Why not release all hostages to end the war?

What's in it for them to prolong this? They are clearly not going to 'beat' Israel.

@ScrollingLeaves , no. It’s perfectly acceptable to criticise anything and anyone.

In that case then, if Oct 7th was planned just days before, what were they planning for 2 years prior as it has been said that it is believed that a large scale attack was in the planning for that long?

Was Oct 7th a smaller scale attack brought forward to stall Saudi normalising ties with Israel? Possibly partners (Iran etc) involved in a larger scale attack weren’t ready so they just sent a few thousand Hamas and civilians (or Sinwar did it off his own back) expecting that Israel would be pressured by the international community to exercise restraint but the rabid dogs they unleashed committed barbarity on a level that even their leaders didn’t expect, and also were able to get more hostages than they bargained for?

Just shows the evil and depravity the decades of indoctrination that killing Jews is to be aspired to created so easily among the participants when they had an opportunity to do so protected in large groups.

Hence that phone call from a Palestinian to his mother and father jubilant over how many Jews he’d killed and they were so proud of him.

Just wow, and the pro-Palestinians think Israel over inflate their security concerns as a means to subjugate Palestinians!

Also explains why Israel weren’t prepared and dismissed warnings as they were expecting a larger scale attack and were listening/gathering for intelligence for that but the planning for this smaller scale one was quickly carried out by word of mouth without the use of technology. I imagine word can travel fast among densely populated tight knit communities.

Hamas releasing the hostages will not end the war and will still leave all the Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons without trial and enduring unimaginable conditions.

Netanyahu cannot be trusted to withdraw, that’s why he refused to move to stage 2 and 3 of the last ceasefire.

Any agreement between the two parties cannot just be one sided and Hamas releasing the hostages whilst the Israeli Government make no concessions is just that!

Exactly. Most countries aren't illegally occupying their neighbours, so don't require that level of defence from the violence such occupation inevitably causes.