https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_and_gender-based_violence_in_the_7_October_Hamas-led_attack_on_Israel

While it’s possible that individual rapes and other sexual violence happened, it’s overwhelmingly likely that it wasn’t widespread or systematic. Hamas has called for an independent investigation into the claims, which Israel blocks to this day. Israel also refuses to release the purported evidence. Numerous witness statements and commonly shared outrage-stories have been discredited (there were, for example, images circulating of horribly mutilated women, claimed to be Israeli. They were actually Kurdish YPJ fighters that fell in the battle of Kobane against Daesh in 2019). Video testimonies of Palestinian fighters were shown to have been given under duress, with obvious signs of torture.

None of this helps the credibility of Israel. The pathological liars of the IDF are using the language and goodwill of feminism (like the #MeToo hashtag, which got flooded by pro-genocide propaganda after the 07.10.) to paint Arabs as savages and less-than-human, to manufacture consent for their genocide. And it seemed to have worked. As someone who considers herself a feminist, I am sickened by how gullibly most western feminists followed this narrative.