Listen jackass, the burden of proof doesn't work that way. Consider: I can claim that I know that you are a kitten raping, puppy eating lizard from Mars, and then demand that you provide evidence that I'm wrong. Given that you don't even know how the burden of proof works, I would suggest that not even are you not smarter than me, you're not even smarter than my dog.
Israel made the claim that rape was used in a massive and systemic way. No evidence was provided. Not a single case of rape was actually found to be verifiable. The one case where a name was put forward, the family of the supposed victim came forward and specifically said that they knew that she was not raped.
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01...
That is not to say that there wasn't a single case of rape on Oct 7. But no evidence has been provided to support even a single instance of it and that is odd. I mean, if there were supposedly hundreds of incidents, then surely a victim or witness could be found. There were after all a LOT of survivors. But apparently victims and witnesses are nowhere to be found:
"The police are having difficulty locating victims of sexual assault from the Hamas attack, or people who witnessed such attacks, and decided to appeal to the public to encourage those who have information on the matter to come forward and give testimony. Even in the few cases in which the organization collected testimony about sexual offenses committed on October 7, it failed to connect the acts with the victims who were harmed by them."
https://www.haaretz.co.il/news...
In other words, the IDF reports were unverifiable despite huge police effort, and the stories appeared made up.
The one making the claim bears the burden of proving it. The media has repeated the IDF line again and again, but the total absence of evidence has quietly been acknowledged in backroom circles. There have been attempts to gather evidence of what actually happened on Oct 7, but Israel doesn't want that:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/0...
Given that Israel has lied about more or less every one of it's claims, such as the beheaded babies thing and the burned women thing, it's pretty reasonable to conclude that without actual evidence, they are not to be believed. And when they actively impede the collection of evidence, well, believing them despite that is just fucking stupid.