The initial Israeli and western media claims were that there were mountains of evidence and Hamas used rape as a weapon of war.

I strongly recommend people use a timed search filter to go back and read the original articles. The IDF and western media claimed there was a mountain of confirmed undeniable evidence.

What will happen is similar to the 40 beheaded babies which was spread by the IDF: Israel will make a straight faced lie that they never made the claim of rapes. And blame it on some misinterpretation by a journalist. Similar to the 40 beheaded babies, this claim was made directly by the IDF itself.