Move comes after BBC Verify investigates footage shared on social media Publication of images ‘contrary to IDF orders,’ military says LONDON: The Israeli military told BBC Verify on Monday it has terminated the service of a reservist identified in the network’s investigation into videos of Palestinian detainees shared online by Israeli soldiers. BBC Verify has analyzed hundreds of videos shot in Gaza that have been posted online since November. Eight of them show Palestinian detainees. The military said it would take measures against any soldier found to have filmed and published videos of detainees stripped, bound and blindfolded. It said “significant command measures will be taken” against those involved in the footage identified by the BBC. One of the videos, shared by an Israeli soldier on Dec. 23, showed a Palestinian detainee stripped, bound and bleeding. The prisoner was on a chair being interrogated before he was made to walk barefoot through the streets of Gaza. When the BBC inquired about the footage, the Israel Defense Forces said: “The photo was taken during a field questioning. The suspect was not injured. “A reservist photographed and published the picture contrary to IDF orders and values. It was recently decided to terminate his reserve service.” Legal experts said last week that the filming and publication of such videos could breach international law, which stipulates that detainees must not be exposed to unnecessary humiliation or public curiosity. International human rights lawyer Sir Geoffrey Nice told the BBC’s “Today” program on Monday that the filming and posting of such videos “may well be a war crime.” The soldier at the center of the scandal posted another video, also on Dec. 23, showing hundreds of Palestinian detainees stripped to their underwear, kneeling in rows and gathered on a sports field. Some were blindfolded. Two videos shared by another soldier include pictures of blindfolded detainees, interspersed with images of military personnel posing with guns. According to BBC Verify, all eight videos have since disappeared from social media platforms. Nice, who has worked with the International Criminal Tribunal, called for a wider investigation into the footage beyond the dismissal of the reservist. He told the “Today” show: “The atmosphere in which soldiers operate reflects again the chain of command immediately above them and possibly the chain of command right to the top. That is something that always needs to be investigated.” When the accusation was put to IDF spokesperson Peter Lerner, he told the same BBC show: “There can be mistakes on the ground … We conduct our operations in the battleground and also in the questioning room within framework of laws, framework of instructions and when there are breaches of those, then they are treated (by) disciplinary or other methods.”