In regards to the media strangeness I posted above: One of the aspects here that is important to understand here I think is that is well know, HAMAS controls Gaza. Because of that, they have a lot of control over what information comes out of Gaza and what gets seen. As an example is the death counts. Certainly many killed, but the Health Ministry (or whatever it is called) that are reporting these numbers, are very much under the control of HAMAS. They are also almost certainly controlling the media that is there the best they can (allowing access to certain things, not to others etc). E.g. if the Israelis blow up some weapons cache, or show HAMAS blockading civilians from leaving, you can be assured they will not allow media access to evidence of that.
As another potential example of this, there is the hospital explosion, which was originally reported as 100's dead, up to 500 (1000s?). This numbers seem very unlikely considering the evidence that can be seen. On this subject, I saw this news report on the attack, that seems like a pretty objective take on it. I was however rather confused by the title of the website, which appeared to have something to do with Iran, NOT where you would expect an objective take, and as noted, it always very important to considered the source.
It turns out the outlet is some sort of nongovernment, outside Iran, maybe what you consider a counter to Iran state media. Anyway, what seems like a reasonable take:
80 Beds Yet Hundreds Dead: Questions Emerge Over Gaza Hospital Attack
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202310183236
If you are curious, you can compare that to the report from Aljazeera take (which is super pro-HAMAS).
What hit al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza?
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/19/what-hit-ahli-hospital-in-gaza
I guess the point is, when you see any information coming out of Gaza, most all of it really should be proceeded with "HAMAS says" or "HAMAS allowed us to see". Doesn't mean it may not be entirely true, but.... and as is implied, what they are not seeing is likely the most important part of the control. Obviously the same can be said for info out of Israel, but I think that is a bit more apparent when that happens.
Oh, and another tidbit that I heard was the that rockets that are fired at Israel (many are home made) have a 30% failure rate. Even if it's 10%, and I suspect many failures are just not launching, it's pretty certain them rocketing their own civilians has happened many times before.