It’s a terrible emotional dilemma, but there should be no strategic dilemma: Destroy Hamas now! Anything less than total annihilation will just doom future Israelis to the same or even greater horrors as occurred on October 7th.
Not many have the stomach or backbone to annihilate Hamas. It involves two things
1. Kill every single person in Hamas and every known supporter including leaders, soldiers, merchants, bankers, teachers, journalists, lawyers, technicians ….. any and all who support or have favorable views of Hamas needs to be killed.
2. Instill more fear of Israel than of Hamas by destroying and killing as many people and buildings as possible in order to have the “civilian” populace snitch on any Hamas and offer NO safe place for support or training.