NAZA (2026) on Netflix
NR20261h 20mDocumentary
Secret nighttime rooftop interviews in Tel Aviv expose the systems Israel uses to calculate mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. The people who designed and operated them speak.
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Plot summary
Between 2023 and 2025, Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers give nighttime rooftop interviews in Tel Aviv, shown as dark shapes with altered voices. They describe artificial intelligence and mobile phone surveillance used to choose targets in Gaza. They say the process causes many Palestinian civilian deaths. One soldier explains that each possible target receives a NAZA value in the software, the expected number of civilian deaths from an attack; approvals were given for values up to five hundred. The combined values for all possible Hamas fighters exceeded the population of Gaza.
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- Israel's culture minister Miki Zohar called for directors Yuval Abraham's and Rachel Szor's citizenship to be revoked, accused them of treason and threatened to cut funding for any Israeli cinema showing the film; prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu called its Venice reception "shocking" and part of "global antisemitic incitement".
- Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu backed Miki Zohar's proposal and is advancing two bills: one to allow revocation of citizenship for Israelis who defame soldiers or the state abroad, and one raising defamation penalties to up to a million shekels.
- A week after the Venice premiere, right-wing protesters linked to Ben-Gvir's Otzma Yehudit party surrounded Rachel Szor's parents' house and made explicit calls for violence, including calls to "execute the traitors".
- The film received a 25-minute ovation at its Venice premiere, the longest in the history of the Venice Film Festival.
- NAZA was the only documentary selected for the Venice Film Festival's main competition, and was added to the line-up only on 24 August after safety concerns about its screening were considered.
- In the week after the premiere, over a thousand Israeli filmmakers signed a petition supporting Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor against what they called an "unprecedented campaign of incitement and instigation"; signatories included directors Ari Folman, Shlomi Elkabetz, Ran Tal and Michal Aviad.
