Now the pseudo-documentary NAZA, produced and directed by two anti-Israel Israelis, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, is about to get its worldwide release. Before you see it, you might want to read the devastating critique of the movie offered by Emanuel Fabian and Nurit Yohanan here: “NAZA’s claims about IDF conduct in Gaza are grave. So are the film’s journalistic flaws,” by Emanuel Fabian and Nurit Yohanan, Algemeiner, September 27, 2026:
Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s “NAZA” is presented as a narrative documentary centered on allegations that Israel intentionally killed tens of thousands of civilians in the Gaza Strip using artificial intelligence, among a slew of other war crimes.
The 80-minute film, produced by the British newspaper The Guardian, does not, however, include key elements typically associated with investigative journalism, including independent verification of testimony or contextual information. The filmmakers did not give the subject of the allegations — in this case, the Israel Defense Forces — an opportunity to respond before publication, a standard practice.
Some of the allegations made in the film correspond to claims previously reported by Abraham in +972 Magazine, Local Call and The Guardian. The Israeli military has disputed some of Abraham’s reporting, saying it lacks “fundamental military understanding.”
On Thursday, the filmmakers, who have faced heavy criticism in their home country of Israel, held a screening in Tel Aviv for local journalists, including from The Times of Israel, though they themselves were not present.
Some Israeli reporters said they had requested to view the film, which is only in limited release, but were not invited to the screening. Abraham has said the film will be available for free online within about a month.
“NAZA” combines an emotionally charged, moody-style documentary with limited elements of a journalistic investigation. The film draws on material from Abraham’s previously published journalistic investigations, even if it does not make that explicit in the documentary itself.
The film tries to present its allegations as factual claims, but omits verification and context, and raises questions about its sourcing.
Its allegations concern the Israeli military’s conduct in the Gaza Strip during the war, including the apparent methods by which the army carries out surveillance on Palestinians, how it purportedly generates targets for strikes, and how Israel knows how many civilians are expected to die in a given attack.
The documentary’s title “NAZA” — a Hebrew acronym for collateral damage — points to what initially appeared to be one of its main subjects: an allegation that the military planned a strike against a single Hamas operative in which 500 civilian deaths were anticipated.
Aside from one interviewee making the claim, the film provides no supporting information for the allegation….
There was one attack in Gaza in which 471 people died. Palestinian Islamic Jihad, however, not the IDF, launched the missile in question. The PIJ missile misfired, landing in the parking lot of the Al-Ahli Hospital, killing close to 500 people.
At least one interviewee describes an Israeli military data analysis system known as “Lavender,” saying that it identifies Hamas members by looking at their cellphone behavior, with a 15% margin of error. (Abraham’s previous reporting in Local Call in April 2024 put Lavender’s margin of error at 10%.)
The interviewee claims that the machine-learning-based Lavender system identified 60,000–70,000 phone numbers as belonging to Hamas members and “certainly” recommended targeting thousands of Palestinians who were not actually members of the group….
No names of those killed who were not members of Hamas, no dates of when they were killed, no location provided of where they were targeted. NAZA offers only the muffled voices of unidentified “interviewees.” No verified facts, just stories from anonymous sources, who for all we know belong to that deplorable brand of far-left Israelis who are determined to harm the state.
Another interviewee claims that a series of strikes one night targeted several Hamas company commanders in one of the group’s battalions while they were believed to be at home with their families. According to the interviewee, the Hamas members’ families were killed, but the commanders survived because they were out fighting and not at home….
That set of attacks that killed only civilians — the families of the Hamas commanders — was not a crime, but a mistake. The IDF thought it would find the Hamas commanders at home, and it also knew how many family members might be found with them. It had determined that the targets were of sufficiently high rank to justify killing a handful — not 50, not 20, not 10, but a handful — of their family members who might be at home. Should the IDF be required to strike its enemies only when there are no, or just a few, civilians present? No army could operate on that basis.
Along with the claim about a readiness to kill up to 500 civilians in a strike, another interviewee recalls a strike in which up to 200 civilian deaths were expected, allegedly in an attack targeting a senior Hamas officer. The interviewee claims that the military bombed an entire neighborhood for the single target.
The film does not provide additional details that would allow the claims to be independently assessed, such as a date of the alleged strike or the name of the Hamas target.
During the course of the war, there were several strikes that exacted high death tolls, according to Gazan health authorities, though no single strike is known to have killed hundreds of people.
In fact, only two strikes out of many thousands carried out by the IDF in Gaza, one on the Al-Tabi’in School Compound in August 2024, and another in the same month on a school that Hams was using as a shelter, caused more than forty dead.
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