A new documentary, NAZA, from Oscar-winning Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, has premiered at the Venice Film Festival featuring testimony from 24 Israeli military insiders about secret systems used in the killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. Produced by the Guardian, it is the only documentary in competition for the festival's Golden Lion award, and draws on interviews with intelligence officers and soldiers filmed anonymously at night, with voices and appearances digitally disguised to protect their identities.

The interviewees describe AI-based systems used to identify large numbers of low-ranking Hamas targets who were then bombed in their homes at night, killing their families alongside them, as well as phone hacking used to track targets before strikes. The film also documents the destruction of neighbourhoods where up to a quarter of residents were still sheltering, the burning of civilian homes, and killings at a food distribution site, with some interviewees drawn from a secret intelligence unit reporting directly to Benjamin Netanyahu's office. It builds on reporting by +972 Magazine, Local Call and the Guardian since 2023, took three years to produce, and was made under tight security; festival artistic director Alberto Barbera called the testimonies "shocking".