What’s disturbing is that the Israelian government seems to care very little about those hostages.
They don't care at all, Netanyahu and his right wing cohorts are so concerned with holding on too their seats that they don't even realise that taking responsibility for this mess and focusing on freeing the hostages would get a lot of the population to back them again (they shouldn't, but they would), to them conflict = distraction = more time to fund more illegal settlements to make sure another conflict is always coming up, all so they can keep living like kings at the expense of the whole region.
And of course not at the same level, but Hamas leadership aren't acting in the best interest of their people either, yes, they are reacting to oppression which is understandable, but they're doing it a way that won't ever lead to that oppression ending, but only to their population to be decimated (if they had attacked only military targets and power/water supply and transportation routs like destroying roads and railways, they could have shut Israel down, add maybe banks or other financial institutions, and they would have put the Israeli government in a much harder position)
I don't completely disagree with you about not everyone being brown, but comparing a photo of modern people to those 2000+ years ago is disingenuous. A lot has happened to the gene pool since, not to mention living conditions and skin protection have improved dramatically.