Venice Film NAZA Reveals Israeli Officers Testimony on Gaza

A documentary titled NAZA, directed by Israeli filmmakers and investigative journalists Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday as the only documentary competing for the festival's Golden Lion award. The film presents anonymous testimony from 24 Israeli intelligence officers and soldiers who describe the systems used by the Israeli military in Gaza, including artificial intelligence-assisted targeting, mass phone surveillance and the bombing of targets in their homes at night. The film's title comes from an Israeli military acronym used to indicate the number of civilians expected to be killed in an airstrike. According to the directors, interviewees described how surveillance of Gaza's telecoms network was combined with AI systems to identify potential low-ranking Hamas members, who were then struck in their homes with the knowledge that family members would likely also die. One officer described mass killing on what he called an industrial scale.