If they capture/kill leadership then they lose their rational for why their genocide is ok…
Same reason Netanyahu was letting suitcases of cash into Gaza for years.
For a far right government that doesn’t care about their own citizens, Hamas is a good thing. And it’s really hard to believe their support was tanking and they might lose power, then coincidentally all this shit popped off.
Either that, or the IDF is completely and totally incompetent