Yuval Abraham, co-director of the documentary NAZA, which narrates through the testimony of Israeli soldiers the organized system for “the massacre of Palestinian civilians” and received yesterday the Special Jury Prize at the Venice festival, has assured that he and the film team will do everything they can to distribute the film “as widely as possible” in Israel, according to the local media Haaretz. The film, celebrated not only by the Mostra jury but also by the critics present at the event, accuses the Israeli army of genocide and argues it through the reconstruction before the camera of several military personnel.
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The film was attacked by the army itself, which hinted that the filmmakers —Rachel Szor is the other director, both are Israeli— and their documentary lie. Personalities such as the former Defense Minister of the country Avigdor Lieberman have labeled the two creators as “Israel haters.” The Minister of Culture, Miki Zohar, threatened to revoke the citizenship of the two authors, after NAZA received the award yesterday Saturday in Venice.
The film reveals “in detail the systems behind the calculated massacres of Palestinian civilians in Gaza,” in reaction to the massacre of Israelis carried out by Hamas on October 7, 2023, according to its synopsis, collected by Haaretz. The denunciation begins with the title itself: Naza is the Hebrew military acronym for “collateral damage.”
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“The soldiers and officers [in the film] spoke in Hebrew because they wanted to reach the Israeli public. They wanted Israelis to hear what they did in Gaza,” added Abraham, according to the same media. The director added that he considers it important that Israelis “listen to the soldiers” who appear in the film.
The film gathers the testimonies of 24 military personnel, officers, and soldiers from the Israeli intelligence service who prove the systems of mass murder in Gaza, some based on surveillance and attack programs generated by artificial intelligence. The two directors have already filmed, together with Palestinians Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal, another documentary denouncing the drama in Palestine, No Other Land, with which they won the Oscar in 2025. Abraham and Szor consider themselves activists who, through journalism and cinema, pursue stopping the “state crimes” that Israel is committing “right now” against the Palestinian population, as they told EL PAÍS in a meeting in Venice. NAZA is produced by the British newspaper The Guardian, whose investigative team has certified the truthfulness of what is told and has guaranteed the legal right to anonymity of its sources.
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