On Thursday, The Times of Israel admitted the evidence of Hamas's rapes has "slip[ped] away" and put out a cover story for why it will never be produced.

"[I]n the wake of the unprecedentedly large mass-casualty event, physical evidence of sexual assault was not collected from corpses by Israel's overtaxed morgue facilities," ToI Reported.

"...morgue officials have not designated individual cases as rape because of a lack of court-compliant physical proof."

"Reflecting the government's official position, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said that Hamas committed acts of "murder, rape, kidnapping," in Hebrew-language remarks, repeated multiple times over the past month. However, the government has not released explicit footage or pressed rape survivors to share their stories. Nor have the forensic services released formal reports on whether their findings were consistent with sexual abuse."

"Now, a month after the massacre, the window for collecting physical evidence of rape that can stand up in court is closed, said a forensic official who spoke on the condition of anonymity."