Yes, it would have been better. Israel has done the same thing, you know. Their military HQ is located deep under a mall in a shopping district, and Mossad HQ is surrounded by residential districts. Gaza and the West Bank are occupied territories, surviving under the boot of the Israeli military. People in occupied territories are allowed to resist (think of the Polish resistance against the occupying Nazi forces). On the one hand Oct 7 seems like a blunder for the ages. But on the other hand Israel’s over the top reaction has exposed it for what it has been for the world to see. Its very carefully constructed facade as the perpetual victim has vanished.