“NAZA” Puts Israel Face to Face with the War in Gaza
The documentary won the Venice Film Festival's Special Jury Prize while presenting contested claims about Israeli military AI systems and their role in targeting decisions.
- The documentary "NAZA," directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival this month, examining the Israel Defense Forces' use of AI in targeting operations during the Gaza conflict.
- Abraham previously published reports on Israeli AI systems including "The Gospel," "Lavender," and "Where's Daddy?," which allegedly generate target recommendations for the military during the early months of the Gaza war.
- Featuring 24 unidentifiable intelligence officers, the film claims the creation of a "factory of targets" on a "mass scale." West Point's Lieber Institute clarifies these are decision-support tools, not autonomous weapons.
- Critics, including Shlomi Ben-Meir, Hebrew editor for the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis , argue the film's limited source pool of 24 unidentifiable officers lacks evidence to support its conclusions.
- Juxtaposing Tel Aviv's modern nightlife with destruction in Gaza, the directors evoke a documentary aesthetic similar to filmmaker Claude Lanzmann's 1985 film "Shoah," emphasizing the moral weight of their subject matter.
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The documentary NAZA, which X-rayed the Israeli army’s techniques to “delete Gaza from the map”, arrived on Thursday at Zinemaldia, after winning the Special Jury Award in the last edition of the Venice Festival. The documentary, produced by the British newspaper The Guardian and directed by Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, gathers the testimony of 24 Israeli intelligence and military officers on the techniques designed and depl…
The documentary "Naja," about the Israel-Gaza War, has raised serious questions about the military use of AI. The film, citing 24 anonymous Israeli military and intelligence sources, claims the use of two AI systems.
‘NAZA’: Exposing Israel’s killing machine in Gaza
Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor write: Over the past three years, we conducted night-time interviews on the rooftops of Tel Aviv with 24 Israeli soldiers who played an active role in Israel’s onslaught on Gaza. Most of them were intelligence officers, working behind screens and participating remotely in the mass killing of Palestinians. Their testimonies form the basis of “NAZA,” a new documentary we directed — produced by The Guardian and James W…
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