Overview
- The film NAZA premiered at the Venice Film Festival and received a record standing ovation before winning the Special Jury Prize on Saturday.
- NAZA delivers 24 anonymized on-camera testimonies from current and former Israeli military and intelligence personnel that allege AI-assisted target selection and systematized strikes causing mass civilian deaths in Gaza.
- The Israel Defense Forces has formally rejected the film’s central claims, said the anonymous sources cannot be verified, and stated that strike approvals are made by human personnel not artificial intelligence.
- Culture Minister Miki Zohar has formally asked interior and legal officials to examine whether the directors committed treason and whether their Israeli citizenship can be revoked, and other senior ministers have publicly condemned the filmmakers.
- The filmmakers say they plan wide release outside Israel and the citizenship request faces a complex legal path requiring interior‑minister action, justice‑minister approval and judicial review, so further legal and political developments are likely.