Gaza: the record ·
Killing the witnesses: journalists and paramedics in Gaza
Israel has killed more journalists than any government since records began. Paramedics were killed in marked ambulances and buried in the sand.
The deadliest war for journalists
According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 189 Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed in Gaza since October 2023. Israel has killed more journalists than any other government since CPJ began collecting data in 1992. CPJ calls it "the deadliest and most deliberate effort to kill and silence journalists" it has ever documented.
Foreign journalists have been barred from entering Gaza independently, leaving Palestinian reporters as the only witnesses on the ground.
The Rafah paramedics
On 23 March 2025, Israeli forces fired on a convoy of ambulances and a fire truck near Rafah. Fifteen rescuers were killed: Palestine Red Crescent paramedics, Civil Defence workers and a UN staff member. Their bodies were found a week later, buried with their crushed vehicles in a mass grave in the sand. A video recovered from the phone of one of the paramedics showed the vehicles driving with their emergency lights on.
Nasser Hospital
On 25 August 2025, Israeli strikes hit Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis twice in quick succession, killing at least 20 people, among them five journalists who worked for news agencies including Reuters, AP and Al Jazeera.
Why it matters
Killing journalists and rescuers removes the people who record what happens. NAZA brings testimony from the other side: the officers who watched Gaza through screens describe what was done, and how it was approved.
Watch NAZA
NAZA is Israeli military slang for collateral damage: the number of civilians an officer is allowed to kill in a strike. In this documentary, 24 Israeli intelligence officers and soldiers, many from the army's most prestigious units, explain how that number was set, approved and exceeded in Gaza. What they describe is not a tragic accident of war but a system: targets tracked to their family homes, families watched for days, strikes approved knowing children were inside.
In cinemas now, and free worldwide on theguardian.com after the cinema run.
