To be a real Human, one needs intelligence, courage, tenacity, curiosity, and a strong sense of justice. Remove any one of the five and you end up with the equivalent of a lemon. Remove the sense of justice and you end up with a monster.
It is not about the hostages. Israel is trying to make the place uninhabitable for natives, by terrorizing them. Actually HAS BEEN trying to make it uninhabitable for natives for (at least) the past half century.