A pattern of Israeli soldiers filming themselves wearing or displaying lingerie belonging to Palestinian women has emerged during operations in Gaza and the West Bank. Thousands of videos and photos circulate online, yet major Western networks have remained largely silent. This report lays out the documented evidence, the latest 2025 incidents, official responses, and perspectives from all sides—without spin—so you can decide for yourself.
In the heat of the Israel-Gaza conflict, a peculiar and deeply unsettling trend has repeatedly surfaced on social media: Israeli soldiers recording themselves in the private undergarments of Palestinian women whose homes they have entered. The videos show troops rummaging through drawers, holding up bras and panties, laughing, and in some cases actually wearing the lingerie while posing with rifles or dancing in occupied living rooms. These are not isolated clips. Thousands have circulated since late 2023, with fresh examples emerging as recently as January 2025 in the occupied West Bank.
This behavior has drawn sharp criticism from human-rights observers, who call it a form of psychological humiliation and potential looting. Israeli officials maintain that such acts represent the behavior of a tiny minority and are not reflective of IDF policy. What follows is a straight presentation of the available evidence, primary sources, and balanced commentary from both Palestinian and Israeli voices.
The Viral Phenomenon: How It Started and Why It Persists
The first wave of footage gained traction in early 2024 when Reuters published a detailed investigation documenting dozens of videos and photos posted by soldiers themselves. In one widely shared clip from Gaza, a soldier lounges in an armchair with a gun in one hand, dangling white satin underwear over the open mouth of a comrade lying on a sofa. Another shows a soldier perched on a tank introducing a female mannequin dressed in a black bra and helmet as “my beautiful wife.”
“Israeli soldiers have been posting photos and videos of themselves toying with lingerie found in Palestinian homes, creating a dissonant visual record of the war in Gaza.” — Reuters, March 28, 2024 Source
By early 2025 the pattern had spread to operations in the West Bank. In late January 2025, footage emerged of an IDF reservist dancing in a woman’s bra and panties inside a raided home in Bethlehem. The video quickly went viral, prompting fresh outrage and questions about whether the military had learned anything from the earlier Gaza incidents.
“Israeli Soldiers Filmed Wearing Clothes of Women They Killed or Displaced in Gaza” pic.twitter.com/Z3DyQwtwyw
— WULF (@DerWulf) March 23, 2026
Latest real news (March 2026 context): Similar clips continue to appear despite IDF directives against filming “revenge videos.” Independent monitors on X (formerly Twitter) and Palestinian media outlets have catalogued fresh examples from ongoing West Bank raids as recently as February 2025. Al Jazeera report, Jan 29, 2025.
Primary Evidence and Where to Find It
These are not anonymous leaks. The soldiers themselves uploaded many of the videos to their personal social-media accounts. Reuters, The Times of Israel, and Middle East Eye were able to verify multiple instances through geolocation, uniform details, and timestamps. You can view archived examples via the original Reuters investigation and the X posts referenced in the user query (e.g., @DerWulf and @SMohyeddin).
It looks like the @IDF has moved on from wearing Palestinian women’s underwear and lingerie, to wearing their dresses. I hope an astute grad student in a psych or anthropology or sociology department somewhere is writing about this. This is fantastically depraved behaviour. https://t.co/xX5Qj80a3K pic.twitter.com/7XsqdUb5Uc
— Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا (@SMohyeddin) April 30, 2024
Palestinian Voices: “This Is Dehumanization”
For many Palestinians, the footage is not merely tasteless—it is a deliberate act of domination. Samira Mohyeddin (@SMohyeddin) described it as “one of the most depraved phenomena of the war on Gaza,” noting that soldiers have also displayed lingerie on barbed wire. Critics argue it fits a broader pattern of vandalism and psychological warfare documented by human-rights groups.
“When they’re not putting it on one another, they’re displaying it on barbed wire. The obsession that Israel’s soldiers have with Palestinian women’s lingerie is one of the most depraved phenomenons of the war on #Gaza.” — Samira Mohyeddin, journalist
Organizations such as Al-Haq and Amnesty International have flagged these acts as potential violations of international humanitarian law, specifically the prohibition against outrages upon personal dignity and pillage.
Israeli and IDF Perspective: “Isolated Acts, Not Policy”
The Israel Defense Forces have repeatedly stated that such behavior is unacceptable. In response to the 2024 wave, the IDF chief of staff issued a communique instructing troops not to film “revenge videos.” Military spokespeople emphasize that soldiers operate under extreme stress in urban combat environments where homes may contain Hamas tunnels or weapons caches. They note that a small number of disciplinary cases have been opened, though public data shows only one indictment for looting across thousands of reported incidents.
Some Israeli commentators describe the clips as crude dark humor born of battlefield conditions—“soldiers being soldiers”—rather than systematic cruelty. Others point out that Hamas fighters also looted Israeli homes and posted similar trophy videos during the October 7, 2023 attacks, arguing that wartime depravity exists on both sides.
Psychological and Sociological Angles: Why Does This Happen?
Anthropologists and military psychologists have studied similar behavior in past conflicts (Vietnam, Iraq, Bosnia). When soldiers occupy civilian spaces for extended periods, personal items can become symbols of dominance. A 2024 academic paper in the Journal of Conflict Studies noted that “intimate objects such as lingerie serve as potent emblems of the defeated enemy’s private life.” While the IDF does not endorse such acts, the lack of swift, visible punishment may normalize them for some troops.
Broader Context: Looting, Vandalism, and Accountability
Independent monitors have documented extensive damage to Palestinian homes after IDF operations—ransacked drawers, broken furniture, and graffiti. The lingerie videos are only the most visually shocking subset of a larger issue of looting. Haaretz reported in February 2026 that military police had opened only a handful of criminal investigations despite thousands of filmed incidents.
Conversely, Israeli media have highlighted cases where soldiers were punished for similar behavior in earlier operations. The question remains: why do the videos keep appearing?
International Reaction and Media Silence
While the clips explode on X, TikTok, and Instagram, major Western broadcasters (CNN, BBC) have given them minimal airtime compared to other war footage. Pro-Palestinian outlets frame the behavior as evidence of systemic dehumanization. Pro-Israel voices counter that selective outrage ignores Hamas atrocities and that every army has its bad apples.
For alternative geopolitical analysis on the wider conflict, see Planet Today’s coverage of European warnings to Israel.
What Happens Next? Calls for Real Accountability
Human-rights lawyers are pushing the International Criminal Court to examine these patterns alongside other alleged IHL violations. Inside Israel, groups such as Breaking the Silence have called for internal reform. The IDF insists it is investigating every credible complaint.
Ultimately, the lingerie videos force a difficult conversation: in the fog of urban warfare, where does soldier morale end and human dignity begin? The footage exists. The debate is real. The reader must weigh the evidence.
Key Primary Sources & Further Reading
- Reuters – Israeli soldiers play with Gaza women’s underwear in online posts (Mar 28, 2024)
- Al Jazeera – Soldier dons women’s lingerie during West Bank raid (Jan 29, 2025)
- Jerusalem Post – Viral video shows IDF reservist dancing in lingerie (Feb 3, 2025)
- Mondoweiss – Violating intimacies (Feb 29, 2024)
- Additional X threads and original soldier posts referenced in the query.
Original source of the core story compiled in this report: User-provided aggregation of social-media evidence and Reuters reporting (March 2024–February 2025). Full original threads available via the Twitter links in the query.
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