diff --git a/server/text_generation_server/models/custom_modeling/idefics_image_processing.py b/server/text_generation_server/models/custom_modeling/idefics_image_processing.py
index 061243fb5b1..28525e86172 100644
--- a/server/text_generation_server/models/custom_modeling/idefics_image_processing.py
+++ b/server/text_generation_server/models/custom_modeling/idefics_image_processing.py
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ def fetch_images(self, image_url_or_urls: Union[str, List[str]]):
             response.raise_for_status()
             try:
                 image = Image.open(BytesIO(response.content))
-                image.verify()
+                # image.verify()
             except Exception:
                 raise ValueError(f"Could not load image from url {image_url_or_urls}")    
             return image