Israel demands hostages back. Gazans demand their homes back and the Israelis to go back, too.

Why should surviving Gazans not expect to return to their homes and all IDF troops return to their own land?

This was, once, their land but given to Israel by their Western allies after 1800 years of Arab, Jewish, Christian settlement but which had never before been the world's first Jewish state - until 1948.  And, extraordinarily, after a war of aggression that was rewarded by the US and the former European colonial powers 'gifting' the land to the aggressors and the Palestinians becoming refugees in their former homeland.