Abdush's family said that Gal was not raped and it would have been impossible to rape her within a 4-minute timeline before she was killed. The family said that the media invented the story. In other purported rape cases, the Israeli police reported that they struggled to find victims and witnesses of Hamas rapes.

The Israeli media outlet, Channel 13, exposed lies about atrocities committed by Hamas, such as babies hung on a clothesline. Mickey Rosenthal, an Israeli police spokesman, who spread lies himself, said that the lies were 'to increase the magnitude of hatred for Hamas.' Propaganda is used to gain support for war. He said that the media is a part of war and may be the most important factor.

From Information Liberation:

Israeli media outlet Channel 13 is now openly admitting that Israeli officials made up Hamas atrocity propaganda about babies on October 7 being killed en masse, baked in an oven and so on to drum up support for Israel's war in Gaza.

"Enough time has passed since October 7 for Israeli media to state what we've been saying for over three months, which is that Israel's military and political leadership fabricated many of the grisliest Hamas atrocities in order to generate support for the genocidal war it planned in Gaza," Max Blumenthal noted on X. "Here, a Channel 13 panel including Mickey Rosenthal, the longtime Israeli police spokesman who spread many such lies after October 7, acknowledges that lurid stories of babies hung on clotheslines, a fetus cut from a pregnant woman, a baby baked in an oven, and more were invented 'to increase the magnitude of hatred for Hamas.' As Rosenthal put it, 'The war is not only military, not only political, it's mainly media.' "