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Israeli whistleblowers detail Gaza civilian toll in Venice film

The documentary uses anonymous testimony from 24 Israeli military insiders to describe surveillance, hacked phones and AI-assisted strike planning.

  • On Thursday, September 10, the Israeli documentary "NAZA" premiered at the Venice Film Festival, drawing a record-breaking 24-and-a-half-minute standing ovation from the audience.
  • Filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor spent nearly three years creating the 80-minute documentary, which investigates bureaucratic systems behind military operations in Gaza.
  • Through interviews with 24 military whistleblowers, the film details an AI-powered system called "Lavender" used to identify targets, with interviewees describing operations as a killing "factory."
  • Screen magazine called the work an "urgent, gut-punch," while critics compared it to director Jonathan Glazer's Oscar-winning "The Zone of Interest" for examining bureaucratic atrocity.
  • Abraham and Szor aim to expose "orders, policies, and patterns of operation," hoping the film will encourage Western nations to apply pressure on Israel and support human rights advocates.
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“NAZA” presents “in detail the mechanisms behind Israel’s deliberate mass extermination of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.” The post Documentary “NAZA” breaks Venice record with 24.5-minute ovación appeared first on in.gr.

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Masovne smrti civila bile su predviđene u postupanju izraelske vojske u Pojasu Gaze, prema documentarcu na Venecijanskom filmskom festivalu predstavljenom u četvrtak koji osporava službene izvještaje o ratu. The film "NAZA", by Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, [...] Objava Israeli časnici u film anonimno govore o planiranju civilnih žrtava u Gazi pojavila se prvi puta na Novi list.

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Haaretz broke the news in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel on Monday, August 24, 2026.
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