Right, but you know hamas believes jews should be wiped from this earth,

That’s irrelevant. They’re not in a position where doing so is possible, and killing their only leverage against a technologically and numerically superior force is not in their interest.

The Israeli people thinking that they did, on the other hand, is VERY much in the interest of the IDF.

you know this current war began because of specific steps Hamas chose to take to attempt to make that goal a reality

Nope. Atrocious and barbaric beyond description as it was, October 7th was a political act, not a foolhardy attempt to kill all Jewish people.

Just because they’re despicable terrorists doesn’t mean that Hamas are stupid enough to think that the total eradication of all Israeli Jews, let alone all Jews worldwide, is something that is in any way possible.

And it’s not a war. It’s one of the biggest, most powerful, and most technologically advanced militaries in the history of humanity eradicating or displacing an entire people, using a tiny minority (that is nowhere near as much a threat as they pretend) as a pretense.

you know the mistreatment they have displayed towards the hostages.

Talking about Hamas or Israel? Because the only significant differences with regards to hostages is that Israel has hundreds if not thousands as many that they abuse just as horribly as Hamas does theirs.

So for you to say that there is a 99% chance that Hamas is innocent of these killings

Again ignoring the qualifier, so I’m gonna make it a little more obvious:

As long as an IDF spokesperson is the ONLY source

that’s a specific choice you are making for conspiricism.

Nope, that’s a statement of how unreliable the IDF and their spokespeople have proven themselves to be. Repeatedly leaving out that part, though? THAT’S a specific choice.