There are so many variables that complicate this discussion.
Firstly, what is the after game? I get it that the goal is lets say to stay in Gaza for another year or two. But there will be a time just like Lebanon when we tends will leave. Who controls the place then? And who says they will be better? Will it be a ” new group” who pretends to be peaceful (maybe the PA) and that will force Israel to allow more freedom but then when it turns around CVS they are even worse? Or keeping Hamas there but having a good excuse to box them in more is perhaps the option which may be the ceasefire option?
Secondly, the prisoner exchange. We like to say this was all Sinwar YMS brains. But was it also not Deif and mashal YMS?, Sure letting out prisioners can result in senior experienced operatives to turn around and kill us. But in reality there are just so many rutheless palestianins drinking the jihad kool-aid that if it’s not these animals its them.
Of course meanwhile hostages are suffering a holocaust and there is no viable way to free them by force rather CVS Hamas will kill them if we get to close
And what if we make a deal and go back in after our fellow brothers come home? The world will scream and we won’t be able to grab all the freed prisoners that have blood on their hands but we can get a nice amount.
I am not suggesting that this approach of standing frim with no ceasefire is wrong. From a torah perspective we have the mahram M rutenberg. Although R Michoel Ber Z’l did negotiate with nazis. I heard R Asher Weiss couldn’t pasken either way when asked. Ultimately I just don’t think its a simple as everyone makes it