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‘NAZA’ movie review: Irrefutable testimonies form an urgent, solemn exposé
NAZA is a 77-minute documentary by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor examining how Israeli military and intelligence services used artificial intelligence to identify targets and calculate collateral damage in Gaza. Rather than trying to persuade viewers, the film presents testimony from people involved in those operations, making the accounts themselves the centre of its investigation.
The directors interviewed 24 members of the Israeli military and espionage services, masking their faces while they described targeting methods and attitudes towards civilians. The review highlights claims that phone tracking and AI were used to select targets, and that civilians were treated as complicit; one interviewee reportedly called bombing homes “insanely fun”. The film also uses news footage and historical context, and ends with a quotation from a younger Benjamin Netanyahu.
In short
- NAZA examines AI-assisted targeting in Gaza.
- It features testimony from 24 Israeli military and intelligence personnel.
- The review describes the documentary as urgent and fact-led.
Explained simply
The film examines how Israeli military and intelligence services identified targets during the war in Gaza. It focuses on testimony from people who say they were involved in those operations, alongside news footage and historical context.
Israel’s military and intelligence services play central roles in gathering information and planning operations. The film’s accounts concern the use of phone tracking and artificial intelligence to assess targets, as well as how civilian harm was considered.
The subject matters because decisions about targeting can have life-and-death consequences for civilians in Gaza. The film puts those decisions and the people describing them at the centre of its investigation.