There was some suggestion of Iranian and or Russian involvement at one point, in the planning stage at least.
The suggestion this being some sort of state sponsored proxy action knowing full well the west would pump military aid over to Israel. Between this and funding Ukraine, you get a stretching of US and European resources and increase in fossil fuel prices due to global instability.
Why Hamas would go along with it is anyone’s guess.
Of course, that could just be all propaganda or smoke and mirrors. The line is very blurry between truth and fiction these days.
Well.. yes and no. Yes in the sense that Iran and by extent Russia are players involved in this pre-hoc. No in the sense that Russia doesn't care all that much at this point about spare (old) western military equipment aid being send to Ukraine, even if its in large numbers.
(Which is why they only sporadically "protest" against it.)
The type of battle field we're currently seeing in the Donbass is that of a new (warfare) Era, in where solid defence lines have been raised on both sides of the battlefield, and each party can simply see what the enemy is up to by means of handheld drones gallore, Satellites in a still neutral LEO-Space and accumulated Yottabites of superfast internet via hand-held mobile phones and mobile (militairy) internet servers.
This creates a huge stale-mate on both sides.
Both defence lines are at this point massive force multipliers. You can throw all the T-80 or western Leopard tanks you want against that.. your enemy, (knowing far in advance that you're mobilizing by said means) can simply pummel you at range, inflicting massive casualties and even if one side somehow manages to make a small break in the 1e line of defence....there's 2 more to go. By the time you’re half way, your army will be defacto gone, or fleeing. something both Russia and Ukraine have had happened to them.
The reason Russia is sort of on board on the sidelines are its close ties with Iran. Its not Ukraine or trying to split western aid between it and Israel.
It doesn’t matter much to Putin at this point if Zelenski receives 10 or a 100 tanks…The war in Ukraine will not be one of tech superiority, or number superiority for that matter anymore.. It will be one of attrition. On this front Russia has the upper hand. It can basically just sit and wait at this point.
The main reason behind, Iran in particular (and as such Russia its its wake), re-pumping lots of (war)funding into in this case Hamas prehoc the strike are IMO the Abrahamic accords.. in where Isreal is re-forging ties with coutries like the UAE, bahrain, and other (predominatly Sunni-muslim!) power houses like saudi Arabia.
Such an (economic/militairy) alliance might very well tip the power balance in the region, to Iran's detriment.