Yes. I thought it had been established that the rave was a surprise to some extent (although that in itself suggests they were operating in the dark, i.e. without any on the ground intel from inside the areas they would attack) and the original intent was to attack military bases and seize hostages and that's what the actual Hamas fighters were doing. The attacks on military bases are memory holed and almost never mentioned in the msm; it's always "the music festival" i.e. the rave but music festival makes it sound nicer and cleaner, and then the kibbutz attacks (where almost all deaths were down to the IOF).

I also think the "second wave" of people crossing the border who weren't involved in the operation and who just vented their fury in violence was also fairly established. I think Norman frames it like that as it ties in with his comparison to the Nat Turner slave rebellion that he uses all the time.

The debate on how many casualties the apartheid state was responsible for seems to have ended but it's surely several hundred of the 1100 deaths. This has been documented by many independent sources, and many sources in the apartheid state, on many occasions and in some considerable detail and the corporate media have resolutely ignored it. The official count seems to have been somewhat memory holed too but the corporate media keep using the inflated 1800/1600 range because that's what they do and they also usually present that as all civilian rather than about 40%-60% military/police.

Almost all of the deaths in the kibbutzes were most likely caused by fire from the IOF tanks/gunships and all the incinerated cars were done by IOF Apaches so that's a large portion of the casualties right away. Also there were reports in the media over there where various IOF members reported taking out cars/groups heading for the border with hostages in line with the "mass Hannibal" directive that was in place (as also reported widely in the apartheid state but not so much in the western media).

That's roughly how I thought the reporting had left things up to now which seems to concur with how you saw it.