Israel is moving from a massive campaign, with large forces, to a more focused campaign against specific targets. The IDF plans to operate in this format for the foreseeable future.
The first target, the abductees, is still far away; The contacts do take place all the time, but the difficult decisions are still ahead of us. The proposed deal will be difficult to digest in terms of the number of prisoners that Israel is required to release, during the cease-fire, and especially in the fact that most of the abductee will be left in Gaza.