NAZA, Israeli film on Gaza, to stream for free after theatrical run

A documentary that accuses Israel of using AI to carry out mass civilian killings in Gaza will be available to stream online for free once its theatrical rollout in more than 50 countries is complete.

Israeli filmmaker Yuval Abraham, who co-directed NAZA with fellow Israeli filmmaker Rachel Szor, announced on Thursday that viewers will be able to stream the award-winning film from November on The Guardian’s website. The UK newspaper helped produce the film.

“I know there is enormous demand to watch the film, and I hope that in this way, everyone will soon be able to see it: whether in cinemas or online in a few weeks,” Abraham said in a post on X.

“We made the film to spark a public discussion about the [Israeli] government’s actions in Gaza, the killing of more than 73,000 people, most of them civilians, the normalisation of a war of extermination, of the notion that ‘there are no uninvolved’,” he added.

NAZA, which means “collateral damage” in Hebrew, will premiere in the United States on Saturday at the New York Film Festival.

The documentary is also due to premiere in several other countries, including the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Canada.

NAZA is 80 minutes long and is the result of a nearly three-year investigation into Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. The documentary is based on testimony from Israeli military and intelligence sources whose identities have been concealed.

One of the film’s subjects described the process of using AI to kill Palestinians in the enclave as “insanely fun” and said it was like playing a “video game”. Another described it as a “mission”.