NAZA: the film the Israeli government does not want you to see

NAZA:这部电影是以色列政府不希望你们看到的

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2026-10-16

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Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor on their new film interviewing Israeli military insiders on the vast, AI-assisted systems their sources say are being used to kill civilians in Gaza. They also talk about the political backlash against their documentary. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This is The Guardian.

  • Today, the Israeli filmmakers lauded as heroes and branded as traitors for exposing mass killings of civilians in Gaza.

  • Just before we start, there are some distressing scenes in this episode,

  • including moments where we describe the killing of children.

  • But I would urge you to listen if you can.

  • Throughout the war in Gaza, the Israeli military always told its people and the world one thing.

  • It does not deliberately kill civilians.

  • We want to differentiate between our enemy, which is these Hamas extremists.

  • And between Gaza's civilian population who are not the targets of our offensive.

  • But in a new documentary from Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Zor,

  • Israeli military insiders set out the vast AI systems used to rain down airstrikes

  • on Gaza that have directly led to the mass slaughter of civilians.

  • They deserve it.

  • The film takes its name from the code word used to count the number

  • of civilians expected to die when authorizing a strike against a suspected Hamas target.

  • Yeah, NAZA is a military acronym that intelligence officers use to refer to the number of civilians,

  • Palestinian civilians, that they expect will be killed in an airstrike.

  • It stands for two Hebrew words, nezek agavi.

  • NASA 1, NASA 20, NASA 500. NASA doesn't distinguish between women and men, adults and children, militants and civilians.

  • So a baby can be one NASA.