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. Their identities and voices are disguised.

Filmed at night on Tel Aviv rooftops, in chapters with titles such as "Where's Daddy?" and "Annihilation Zone", they describe tracking targets to their family homes and watching families for days before strikes were approved. One officer followed two sisters to find their father; he was not home when the strike killed the family. As the filmmakers put it, the killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza was "not a 'tragic byproduct' of a war against Hamas" but "a premeditated, calculated, and intentional act."

Directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, the Israeli co-directors of the Oscar-winning No Other Land. Produced by The Guardian and James Wilson (JW Films), executive produced by Jonathan Glazer. World premiere in competition at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival on 10 September 2026, where it won the Special Jury Prize after a record ovation of about 25 minutes.

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