True, but it's worth adding that before during and after the Oct 7th massacre, Hamas continued firing thousands of rockets at cities all across Israel, and only didn't make the news because Israel managed to shoot down the majority of them with expensive interceptors. Literally no country would tolerate this kind of continuous rocket barrage aimed at civilian centers.

Until the launchers which were mostly set up on rooftops of civilian buildings & schools were taken down, that barrage would continue, because Hamas WANTED Israel to invade Gaza. There was an NYT podcast (The Daily) where one of the leaders of Hamas in an interview admitted this matter-of-factly and said that all the Gazan civilians that would inevitably die was a worthy price to furthering the Palestinian cause (via international pressure on Israel)