Overnight the IDF just massacred over 200 Palestinian civilians by launching airstrikes on towns in South Gaza and following them up with troops attacking these towns.
For weeks now Israel have stopped fuel, water, food, electricity and medical supplies from getting into Gaza. That is pure evil and inhumane.
They told civilians to leave North Gaza immediately a couple of weeks ago and go to South Gaza. If they never left everything they owned - and family members too frail to flee - then it was their fault that they were carpet bombed into oblivion.
And now, where are the IDF concentrating their bombing now? The same place they told the civilians to flee to. OK, the Israelis were already bombing refugee camps, hospitals and schools in South Gaza before the ceasefire, so the refugees should have known that fleeing to there was not a safe option either. As they realistically had nowhere safe to go then they should have done the decent thing and committed suicide so that Israel did not have to waste money replacing expensive weapons!
You are correct that prioritising a few hundred hostages deliberately sacrificed by their own rulers over thousands upon thousands of Palestinian lives is NOT a popular view with anyone who has a shred of empathy with human life. The Hamas attack on 7th October did not happen in a vacuum and was the result of decades of oppression and murder of their own people.
The situation is a mess and very sad.