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Israel Fears Oscar-Winning Documentary 'NAZA' Exposing Military Secrets

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Israel is treating the new documentary 'NAZA' by Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor as a national security crisis rather than bad publicity. Eyal Zamir, chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, pledged to use 'every tool at our disposal' against the film, which features anonymous interviews with 24 intelligence officers and soldiers. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for legislation to strip Abraham and Szor of their citizenship, while the culture minister has asked the Interior Ministry to investigate them for treason.

Activists from the far-right party of Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir protested outside Szor's parents' house, calling for their execution. The documentary reveals factory-scale targeting enabled by artificial intelligence, where little effort was made to avoid civilian casualties. 'The goal was quantity, not quality,' said one speaker. One man described hacking into a 12-year-old girl's phone to learn when her father arrived home, then ordering a bombing in which she was killed.

The film shows that '20 NAZA' was a benchmark—meaning it was OK to kill 20 civilians for one Hamas target.