Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar called for an investigation into the sources used in the award-winning documentary NAZA on September 14. The film, which won a special prize at the Venice Film Festival, features anonymous Israeli military whistleblowers who accuse the army of using AI-powered targeting systems to kill thousands of civilians in Gaza. Zohar also suggested considering revoking the citizenship of the filmmakers for alleged treason during wartime. The Israeli military criticized the use of unnamed sources and disputed claims made in the film about an airstrike that killed 500 civilians, asserting that such accusations cannot be independently verified.
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Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar has threatened to revoke the citizenship of filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor after their documentary "NAZA" won a special jury prize at the Venice Film Festival. The film, which criticizes Israeli airstrikes that killed Palestinian civilians in Gaza, features interviews with 24 unnamed Israeli military and intelligence whistleblowers who discuss AI-powered targeting systems used during the conflict. Zohar accused the filmmakers of treason against Israel and expressed his intent to strip them of their citizenship, while also calling for an investigation into how they obtained their sources. The IDF denies deliberately targeting civilians, but more than 73,000 Palestinians, including over 20,000 children, have been killed in the ongoing conflict since October 2023 according to Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry figures.
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Israeli minister urges probe into sources in award-winning Gaza film
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The Israeli culture minister on Sept 14 called for an investigation to identify the anonymous military sources featured in the award-winning documentary NAZA, who accused the army of mass civilian killing in Gaza.
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In the film, directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor spoke to 24 anonymous Israeli military whistleblowers who outlined the AI-powered targeting systems used to bombard Gaza that have killed tens of thousands of civilians.
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The 80-minute documentary won a special jury prize at the 2026 Venice Film Festival.
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In a post on X, Culture Minister Miki Zohar said he had asked the authorities to “investigate how the materials were obtained, who is behind them, and whether in the process of obtaining or publishing them, actions were taken that amount to aiding the enemy during wartime”.
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He said he had asked the interior ministry to consider revoking the citizenship of the two film-makers on account of “treason”.
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“Freedom of expression is not a licence to betray the state.
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Anyone who acts against Israel during wartime should know that there will be a price to pay,” Zohar wrote.
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The revocation of nationality is legally possible in Israel, although it is rarely applied.
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In 2022, Israel’s Supreme Court confirmed that the state may strip people of their nationality for a breach of “loyalty to the State”, for example, by committing acts of espionage or treason.
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The Israeli military has criticised the use of anonymous testimonies in the film, and contested a claim made by one interviewee that the army approved an airstrike in which 500 civilians were killed.
“The film-makers couldn’t possibly verify this claim, there is no real supporting evidence, and yet they published it anyway.
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Additionally, nothing about the interviewee, not his service nor his role can be independently checked and verified,” the military said in a statement on Sept 14.
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Israel denies deliberately targeting civilians.
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Abraham said “the Israeli intelligence officers we spoke with talked to us about how this mass killing is systemic: Not by accident, but by design”.
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Palestinian militant group Hamas launched an attack on Israel on Oct 7, 2023, which resulted in the deaths of 1,221 people, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.
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Militants also took 251 hostages to Gaza.
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Israel’s retaliatory military campaign in Gaza has killed more than 73,700 people, according to the territory’s health ministry, which operates under Hamas authority and does not distinguish between combatants and civilians, and whose figures are considered reliable by the United Nations.
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