Sexual assault is almost always a notoriously difficult crime to prove, but it’s even more so when the assailants possess the means and amorality to murder, defile, and destroy the bodies of their victims. It’s not that Hamas terrorists, like rabid dogs let off the leash to rape and pillage, weren’t exactly subtle in concealing their crimes: We have all seen Naama Levy, the crotch of her pants bloodied and her Achilles tendon nicked, lest she try to run away, as well as the near-naked corpse of Shani Louk, upon which Hamas terrorists sat, parading through the streets of Gaza. But Hamas, like all sexual predators, has been torn between its hatred of the female body and its abject fear of it.

Oct. 7, for Hamas leadership, may have wound up too successful by half. The group maintains that it only meant to seize the hundreds of hostages still in its clutches, not slaughter some 1,400 Jews. But again, let rabid dogs off their leashes — and that’s clearly what those young men are, as uncontrollable and uncivilized as the most savage pit bull in the ring — and of course they’ll go rogue. And just as any owners are criminally liable for the damage done by their mangy mutts, Hamas is solely responsible for the rapes wrought by its adherents, no matter if it was part of the plan.