NAZA from Oscar-winning Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, the co–directors of No Other Land comes this new documentary film, that exposes the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) using artificial intelligence and mass surveillance to orchestrate the mass killings of Palestinians in what is Israel’s ongoing genocide/war on Gaza.
The documentary shows concealed operatives recounting their experience of the inhumane acts they had committed in the guise of greater justice to eliminate Hamas members as a response for the October 7th attacks.
The accounts are bleak and rather chilling, as you hear how the state of Israel has convinced many Israelis to participate in the brutal ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. It is seen as a justifiable thing to have innocent women and children killed with Naza itself translating to ‘collateral damage’.
The labelling and dehumanisation of Palestinians is present, with the director and journalist Yuval Abraham providing direct questions and statements for the operatives to reckon and reconcile with. This was not a pleasant watch and what you see is a rather harrowing tale of how people can become implicit and be involved in crimes against humanity.
I struggle to write about this because in what you see from the documentary is the dark and twisted side of humanity, where basic empathy and dignity is replaced with systemic violence inflicted by the state of Israel acting with international backing by likes of the United States, in the forced displacement, ethnic cleansing and weaponised starvation that the Palestinians face in Gaza.
See Amnesty International Report: https://www.amnesty.org.uk/knowledge-hub/all-resources/you-feel-like-you-are-subhuman-israels-genocide-against-palestinians-in-gaza/
Everything in the documentary is laid bare to witness in terms of how cold and distanced many operatives feel in locating Palestinians and ordering uncompromising and unrelenting airstrikes. You hear some abhorrent and really saddening accounts. This film was a very tragic and hard-watch and many audience members you can imagine were left speechless in the theatre where I saw it.
Everyone should watch NAZA to understand how the state of Israel has been committing a genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza. No doubt, such a film was incredibly difficult to both fund and make but this is a necessary film to watch and that the world must hold state of Israel accountable for the war-crimes it has committed.
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