Documentary NAZA about Israel's AI-powered mass killings to stream for free on The Guardian website
Documentary NAZA, which exposes AI-powered mass killings by the Israeli military, will be streamed free of charge on The Guardian website.
The chilling new documentary by Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor highlights Israel’s AI-powered mass killing of civilians in Gaza. In the film, Abraham and Szor used conversations with 24 different Israeli military or intelligence whistleblowers who spoke on condition that their identities be protected. “We are letting the soldiers and the officers speak about what they did,” Abraham said.
“After its run in cinemas, the film will stream on The Guardian’s website, for free, as part of the news organisation’s commitment to the dissemination of independent journalism,” the British publication reported on Thursday.
“NAZA is grounded in rigorous journalism published over the past three years,” said Harry Davies, an investigations correspondent at The Guardian and one of the producers of NAZA. “But it is also a powerful piece of cinema that will soon be available on screens, large and small, around the world,” he added.
NAZA made headlines earlier this month after its filmmakers received a 25-minute ovation at its Venice Film Festival premiere.
The documentary prompted backlash in Israel, including from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who even went as far announcing that his government will seek legislation to revoke the citizenship of anybody seeking to slander or defame Israeli soldiers or the state.
“The first, to revoke the citizenship of anyone who defames [Israeli] soldiers, and the second to hit them in their pockets and increase the statutory damages for defamation they can be sued for by 20 times,” Netanyahu said in a video posted on the internet.
“We will hit them both in their pockets and in their citizenship, as their place is not with us,” he added.
NAZA draws its name from a euphemism used by Israeli intelligence to indicate the number of civilians that are expected to be killed in an airstrike. It was described as an “urgent, gut-punch” by film magazine Screen, while The Hollywood Reporter said it inspired “outrage…indignity as well. Most certainly disgust, on a profound level, for the current Israeli regime”.
