VIDEOS of Gazan detainees stripped, bound and blindfolded that were filmed and uploaded online by Israeli soldiers breached human and international law, legal experts say.
International law says detainees must not be exposed to unnecessary humiliation or public curiosity.
BBC Verify looked at hundreds of videos openly shared by Israeli soldiers in Gaza since November 2023. We verified eight showing detainees.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says it has terminated the service of one of the reservists we identified, and videos like these do not represent its values. It did not respond to any further request for comment.
Dr Mark Ellis, a leading UN advisor to international criminal tribunals, said the footage we showed him from Israeli soldiers might violate the recognised rules for treating prisoners of war.
Most of the videos we analysed show scenes of fighting and soldiers looking through homes abandoned by residents.
One video shows soldiers launching weapons dressed up as dinosaurs, and others show them setting up a pizza restaurant in an empty Palestinian home.
But we found eight, filmed and shared publicly, which legal experts say show the ill-treatment of Palestinian detainees.
They were all posted by men who are or were serving soldiers, who did not hide their identity.
We uncovered one account by analysing an image of a Palestinian detainee which was widely shared online earlier this week. Reverse image search tools show it came from the YouTube account of Israeli soldier Yossi Gamzoo Letova.
He has uploaded multiple videos from Gaza since early December, including shots of his troop, which he identifies as the Granite Battalion 932, which is part of the IDF’s Nahal Brigade.
In a video posted on 24 December 2023, the Palestinian detainee from the image is shown stripped and bleeding with his hands bound and sat on a chair while being interrogated.
