Just found this, that's a bit of good news : Tsahal is 500m from Al-Shifa hospital and Hamas main HQ.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/73055
Can't say which Arab media, but this channel is by no means pro-Israel.
Going on a limb now, since information here - France - is at best - sketchy and rather pro-Palestine, and I'm but a guy with a vested interest in military history, but my overall feeling, after a month of operations, is that the IDF know their job and that Hamas didn't expect things would go so badly for them.
It is rather unclear what Hamas expected and/or intended to do. Apart from the obvious "causing mayhem, hurting Israel and Jews, behaving like lowly animals" and the such.
Was it done in order to trigger a response?
From Israel, well yes, it was a given. Even if Netanyahu wasn't in power, Israel would have responded. That much is obvious.
But at the time, the scale of the response was left to be seen, and the events were so "out of this world" in term of scale that it left the "involved community of people" in a state of awe for a few minutes.
From other actors, on the other hand?
Maybe.
Maybe Hamas launched that attack in order to stimulate and incite other non-state actors, along with state actors, to join in. A hard hitting shock attack, inflicting huge casualties and striking several kilometers deep inside Israel; thus exposing Israel weakness and vulnerability: "if we seize the momentum, we can destroy Israel".
Perhaps Hamas also relied on the current state of the International World:
Europe is immobilized by its commitment towards Ukraine.
The US is utterly irrelevant due to its leadership, or lack thereof.
Iran has more wiggle room.
Erdogan is literally willing to support whoever who will help him secure more power.
Perhaps garnering the support of unlikely allies such as China, DPRK, Russia; and betting on the overall International moral weakness to pressure Israel into standing down.
But nobody joined, and despite huge popular support from hordes of morons, Hamas was left to face a very angry and motivated Israel.
Iran threw Hamas under the bus, despite providing training facilities and equipment, by saying "that one is on them, we didn't know nothing".
Hezbollah did the same.
And basically all of the potential allies Hamas could have relied on.
Best the got were "you got this bro, thoughts and prayers! good luck!"
China and DPRK are not interested in the slightest.
Russia tried to mediate to some extent, but remained uninvolved. Which, personally, had to be expected since Putin, despite the current-thing narrative, isn't a raging antisemite.
The US didn't pressure Bibi to "take it for the team" or to "take it easy". The Senate adopted a milktoast censure resolution against one of its Democrat member, yet you have hordes of raging antisemites protesting/rioting/"passionately marching" in most major cities and attacking Jews.
The EU... well actually I don't even remember what the EU did. If it actually did something in the first place, in fact. Apparently France pledged to send €100M to Palestine. But generally speaking most of the things coming from either Europe or the US is the strong support to Palestine, Hamas and the open hostility towards Israel and Jews.
*almost as if Russia was doing a better job at protecting Jews huh...*
And Zelensky tried to piggyback the whole thing.