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Put yourself in the shoes of an Israeli boy. Maybe ten years old or so. One day, a Hamas attack kills your cousin, your best friend, and your five-year-old sister, as well as both of your parents. You survive because you happened to be elsewhere at the time. You're not a soldier. You're not one of the people responsible for Israel's oppression of Palestine. You're literally just some kid.
But in ten years, you better believe you're going to be an IDF soldier, and one of the bad ones, because you want revenge. Every night, in your sleep, you see your parents' corpses. And your sister's. Someone literally cut her head off, and you see it, every night. And you are hellbent and determined to make them pay.
Now... Has Hamas' murder of your little sister accomplished anything good for them? For their goals? Is it practical? Is it pragmatic? Will it move the world closer to a free Palestine?
No. Of course it won't. It's counterproductive. It will make Israel literally level Gaza. It will empower the hardliners, the ones who pushed for illegal settlements in the first place. They will be fueled by the combined rage of tens of thousands of people just like you, a little boy who lost everything because Hamas decided civilians were legitimate targets for murder, rape, mutilation, and torture.
The moral high road isn't for cowards, it's for people who aren't idiots. You don't win by taking the low road in a situation like this, you just make both sides angrier, more scared, and more entrenched. It accomplishes literally nothing that you profess to want accomplished. The low road is for fools.