If you consider preparations to be part of the thing, yes. Which is a valid view just not standard military lingo.

Look at it like this: If you only do shaping, that is, poke and peek until you have the enemy in a position you like, but then don't actually pounce the impact on the battlefield will be minimal to non-existent: Borders won't shift, what you essentially did is having an overcomplicated skirmish.

...that's militarily speaking. Of course, the IDF already killed more Gazan civilians than Hamas killed Israeli civilians. But militarily speaking that's not an offensive, how could it, it's not affecting military targets.