Hamas and psychological warfare

Hamas is using every aspect of psychological warfare against the Israelis and it's working. When the current pause in the fighting ends tomorrow, all Hamas has to do is announce that it will start preparing a next list of hostages to be released provided the ceasefire is extended, and when that period comes to an end, to make another statement that it will be willing to consider another 20 or so hostage releases, as long as the ceasefire holds, and then when that finishes to accounce a few more releases etc etc, and drag it out for as long as possible and then say that the final 40, let's say, will remain hostages until Israel agrees to withdraw all troops from Gaza. And guess what, three of the final 40 will be Americans, just to keep the pressure on Washington to restrain the Tel Aviv government. The Israelis know this is what's going to happen, so at some point they will have to make a decision, prosecute the war as planned and hope for the best re the remaining hostages or give up and go home. I can't imagine them doing the latter, so it will become a huge psychological warfare confrontation to see who blinks first.