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- NAZA will stream free on The Guardian's website starting November, following its theatrical rollout in more than 50 countries, co-director Yuval Abraham announced Thursday.
- The 80-minute film is based on testimony from Israeli military and intelligence sources and investigates the "Lavender" AI system, which the sources said was used to identify assassination targets with a claimed error rate of up to 10%.
- NAZA won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice International Film Festival and premieres in the US at the New York Film Festival, with additional screenings planned in the UK, France, Germany, and Canada.
- One source in the film described using AI to kill Palestinians as "insanely fun" and "like playing a video game," while another said an attack was approved despite knowing as many as 500 civilians could be killed.
- Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zoha called for co-directors Abraham and Rachel Szor to be stripped of citizenship and accused them of "treason"; PM Benjamin Netanyahu subsequently pledged a law revoking the citizenship of anyone who "defames Israeli soldiers."
- Abraham said the film documents "the killing of more than 73,000 people, most of them civilians" and declared that "journalism is not betrayal. Criticism is not betrayal."
Why it matters: Moving NAZA from paywalled theatres to free online streaming dramatically widens who can see testimony from Israeli intelligence sources about AI-assisted targeting in Gaza — while the Israeli government simultaneously escalates pressure on the filmmakers with citizenship-revocation threats.
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