NAZA

The Israeli makers of a prize-winning documentary exposing the confessions of occupation soldiers engaged in the Gaza genocide are to put their film online, for free, for all to watch. Yuval Avraham and Rachel Szor, who also made Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, have been targeted by violent riots and calls for their execution for treason by Zionist fanatics outraged at the filmed confessions. The film, NAZA, won five awards at the Venice Film Festival in September 2026, including the Special Jury Prize. It derived from the Hebrew ‘Nezek Agavi’, which roughly translates to collateral damage.

NAZA: ‘Public importance’

In a post to his X feed, Avraham said (translated from Hebrew) of NAZA:

Due to the interest and public importance, I and Rachel decided together with The Guardian that the film NZA would be accessible online for free, without any time limit, so that every person can watch it and the soldiers’ testimonies. This will happen in a few weeks, in November, at the earliest date we managed to set. Until then, we approached cinemas in Israel and offered them the film at no cost, in the hope that it will be screened in the country already now, in parallel to its distribution in cinemas around the world. Its screening will be a brave decision in the face of great violence aimed at concealing it. 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.

Many incorrect things were said about us and about the film in the past week. The film is based on three years of comprehensive journalistic investigation, and the details in it are verified and cross-checked. It will speak for itself, and the truth will ultimately come to light.

Avraham noted that they made NAZA “to spark a public discussion about the government’s actions in Gaza, the killing of more than 73,000 people, most of them civilians, the normalization of a war of extermination, of the notion that “‘there are no uninvolved’”:

Twenty-four soldiers and female soldiers took a step and spoke in front of a camera about what an entire society doesn’t want to talk about.

Recognizing the atrocities in Gaza does not diminish for a moment the heinous massacre of October 7, for which Hamas is responsible, which soldiers talk about in the film, and which has no justification whatsoever. On the contrary. After all, ignoring what’s happening in Gaza is one of the factors that paved the way for that horrific Sabbath. And this ignoring continues.

He continued by saying that “Journalism is not betrayal. Criticism is not betrayal. It is the duty of every citizen whose government commits crimes to know, and of every soldier who witnessed them to tell. There are thousands of such soldiers walking around here, who will watch the film [NAZA] and recognize what is described in it personally”:

the killing of unarmed people crossing an imaginary line, the NZA approvals in the hundreds, the systematic attacks on family homes, the burning and physical destruction of Gaza, murder and shooting at hungry people in food distribution centers, and other crimes that have no justification. Even if it’s frightening, it is your duty to find a way to testify to what you saw. They will tell you that it’s better to hide the truth for the sake of hasbara abroad, but that’s nonsense. There, they already know everything. Crimes are not explained but stopped. Hiding the truth first and foremost poisons our society and, above all, allows the harm to human beings in Gaza to continue.

And on a personal note: I have been writing about the army’s fire policy in Gaza in Hebrew in “Local Call” for three years already. The investigations were met with ignoring in Israel. Now, for the first time, something is cracking in the screen of ignoring—and that’s a positive thing. It’s a healthy thing. Yes, it comes with a great personal price. It was a hard week. But within it, there is also a lot of support, and a lot of generosity. One thing is certain: the threats won’t help. It doesn’t deter us. Rachel and I will return to the country and continue to fight for the future of this place together with many partners.

Szor and Avraham face danger from ethno-supremacists, but have been far more fortunate than their Palestinian colleague who worked with them on No Other Land. Just a few months after the Oscars win, Awdah Hathaleen was murdered by Israeli land-thieves (euphemistically termed ‘settlers’) in the occupied West Bank. In the three years up to June 2026, 1,244 Palestinians were murdered by ‘settlers’ in the West Bank. 268 of them were children. In a sign of the escalating terrorism of the ethno-colony, the total exceeds that of the preceding seventeen years.

NAZA will be available to watch online from November, but the exact date has not yet been set.

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