News, views and top stories in your inbox. Don't miss our must-read newsletter Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid Email

These are the pictures of female soldiers baring more than their arms which led to them being disciplined by commanders in Israel.

One of the images posted on Facebook shows the women wearing only combat helmets with ammo bags to protect their modesty.

In another they are topless with backs to the camera and assault rifles slung across their buttocks.

The group, with their faces blurred in the pictures which surfaced yesterday, appeared to be in a barrack room.

Israeli news site Walla said the young women were new recruits on a base in the country’s south.

The military said they had all shown “unbecoming behaviour” for the Israeli services.

It added: “The commanding officers disciplined the soldiers as they saw fitting.”

Israel, with military service at 18, has been embarrassed several times by troops’ web posts.

One ­humiliated a Palestinian woman prisoner.