Like Israel cares about the “hostages”
They are using them as a PR stunt.
Really, how many are there? Are there any? Israel’s indiscriminate bombings of Palestinian homes (where the hostages were originally kept) most likely killed most or all of them.
Compare this to the 10,000 Palistinean hostages Israel has, or had, because the IDF are constantly torturing them to the point of death.