NAZA exposes the surveillance and AI systems enabling the mass killing of civilians in Gaza’s genocide.
NAZA is a documentary by the Israeli co-directors of the Oscar-winning No Other Land. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival in September and won the Special Jury Prize.
It is a bone-chilling indictment of Israel’s military and its use of technology to systematically commit genocide against civilians in Gaza. It is based on interviews with 24 Israeli intelligence officers, many from notorious military units. They were filmed at night on Tel Aviv rooftops with their faces and voices disguised.
“Naza” is Israel’s military slang for collateral damage: the number of civilians expected to be killed in a tank or air strike. The military developed an AI system called “Lavender” to identify 37,000 Palestinians as suspects belonging to Hamas, and officers were pre-approved to kill up to 20 innocent civilians, often an entire family, for a low-ranking suspect and many 100’s when the target was a senior commander. More than 500 deaths required high-level approval.
Using Israeli technology to hack into cellphone cameras and microphones they were able to spy on everyone in Gaza with a phone, including children. One targeting strategy was called “Where’s Daddy?” and alerted officers when a marked man entered his home, so that he could be bombed along with his family. Officers describe watching entire families going about their normal lives before striking.
The interviewees describe the work as a routine job done on screens, “like a video game” and “You understand that the objective is to destroy.”
NAZA puts the people who worked inside that system on camera. The filmmakers have been accused in Israel of treason and attacking the State of Israel. Netanyahu proposed stripping their citizenship for defaming IDF soldiers. Crowds have gathered chanting “death penalty to the traitors.”
The film’s conclusion is unmistakable: the mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza was not a tragic by-product of war but a premeditated and calculated crime of commission.
2026 | UK, USA | Abraham & Szor | 80 min | Hebrew, Arabic, English with subtitles
Official Trailer
The film is followed by conversation / Q&A with Robert Massoud, founder of Zatoun, fair trade olive oil from Palestine.
Awards and reviews:
Jury Special Prize at 83rd Venice International Film Festival
“There are things I can’t talk about, one interviewee reluctantly notes, suggesting there are true horrors that can’t be spoken of aloud. What is said during these conversations is still enough to make you scream and weep.” ROLLING STONE “The spare, focused style of Naza has a grim, artful beauty, all in service of the subject matter. The results are impossible to shake.” NEW YORK MAGAZINE “As a work of cinema, it is exemplary. As a work of journalism, it is inarguable. As a document, it is an indictment.” TIME OUT
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In solidarity and peace,
Irene
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