Gaza Herald – Fifteen months after Israeli and allied horror propaganda was on full display with all the lurid details of mass rapes allegedly committed by Palestinians on 7 October 2023, an Israeli prosecutor has admitted what independent journalists and UN investigators had known for a long time: no complainants, no victims, no credible evidence.
In what is a rare and telling interview, published in January 2025 on Yedioth Ahronoth’s Ynet website, Moran Gez, former lead prosecutor of so-called “security cases” in Israel’s southern district, said, “In the end, we have no complainants.”
That said, Gez is totally fine with the mass murder of Palestinians, including people accused of non-lethal acts like looting, starting a fire, or picking fruit. Anyone who entered Israel from Gaza on 7 October to kill or to loot, it doesn’t matter, should be included in the indictments, and as far as I’m concerned, deserves the death penalty.
You came to the door with a drill and opened it to loot? Then a terrorist came in and murdered civilians there.” The interview gives a horrific perspective on Israel’s legal system’s response post-7 October: revenge rather than justice and punishment without evidence.
Gez confirmed that her office reached out to women’s rights organizations to find rape survivors, only to discover, “They were simply not approached,” she said, indicating that no one came forward.
This aligns with earlier findings from The New York Times, which investigated hospitals, rape crisis centers, and hotlines in Israel but found not a single victim of sexual violence connected to the events of October 7.
Reporter Anat Schwartz, who led the investigation, shared with Israeli Channel 12, “No one had met a victim of sexual assault.” Despite this, The Times published the now-infamous article “Screams Without Words” in December 2023, which claimed to support allegations of mass rapes.
However, the article quickly unraveled under scrutiny, serving as a cautionary tale of journalistic failure. Even Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), didn’t mention rape in his 2024 request for arrest warrants against Hamas leaders, signaling that his investigators also found no evidence to back the claims.
From the very start of the October 7 Hamas-led assault, Israeli officials and media outlets circulated horrific, largely unverified stories of mass sexual violence, which were quickly echoed by Western leaders.
President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz repeated rape allegations that have since been thoroughly debunked. Scholz even claimed that Hamas fighters filmed themselves committing rapes, despite the absence of such videos.
His foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, went as far as to say she had personally seen them. When challenged, German officials attempted to discredit and silence journalists who were asking tough questions.
However, two separate UN reports in 2024 found “no tangible indications of rape” and no forensic evidence to support the accusations. Some of the most grotesque claims made by Israeli officials, such as a fetus being cut from its mother’s womb, were proven to be completely unfounded.
Gez continues to bring up the issue of rape to push for tougher policies and a revival of military courts for Palestinians from Gaza. “In this matter, I would lower expectations,” she acknowledged.
“The vast majority of sex crime allegations just can’t meet the proof required in court.” Vengeance Over Due Process What Gez is proposing isn’t about justice.
She’s suggesting changes to the law that would allow convictions without solid evidence and even without any confessions.
However, in the interrogations of Palestinians detained after October 7, she claims there weren’t even any confessions. “They try to downplay the nationalistic aspect,” she expressed.
“Most terrorists take pride in what they’ve done… That’s not the image I have of terrorists.” Instead of considering that many of the hundreds arrested might not have anything to confess, Gez interprets their silence as a sign of cowardice, ignoring the possibility that the Israeli justice system could be prosecuting innocent individuals. Many of these detainees are being held indefinitely in a prison system where Palestinians face a staggering 99.7% conviction rate.
While the world fixates on rape claims that remain unproven, credible reports have surfaced of Israeli sexual violence against Palestinian detainees, especially since 7 October.
One of the most disturbing cases occurred in Sde Teiman, a secretive Israeli military detention camp. There, according to multiple testimonies, Palestinian prisoners were shackled, blindfolded, and in at least one case, gang-raped, with part of the assault caught on video.
But these well-documented abuses haven’t generated the global outrage seen around unsubstantiated Israeli claims. Western governments and media remain largely silent.
An empty justice system draped in nationalism
Gez’s interview was published in Hebrew, behind a paywall, likely meant to stir domestic nationalist fervor, not global scrutiny. But her words matter beyond Israel. They expose the political agenda, double standards, and deep-rooted racism driving Israel’s so-called “justice system” for Palestinians.
She even admits that when it comes to alleged sex crimes:
“The public has expectations… but most of these cases will never meet the legal standard for proof.”
And yet, she wants to lower the standard, not in pursuit of truth, but to ensure punishment.
Her final remark may be the most honest thing anyone in Israel’s legal system has said since 7 October:
“I would lower expectations.”
Perhaps we should too, at least when it comes to expecting justice for Palestinians under Israeli rule.
