NAZA, an 80‑minute documentary directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, was shown to a sold‑out crowd in Brooklyn on 3 November 2026. The film interviews 24 current and former Israeli military intelligence officers about the IDF’s killing of civilians in Gaza, a conflict that has claimed at least 75,000 lives since October 7th.
In the film, the term NAZA—short for “unit of collateral damage”—is used to describe each Palestinian civilian killed by an Israeli aerial strike. The directors explain that the number of civilians per strike has risen from 15 to 500 since the outbreak of hostilities.
During the screening, the final frame turned black and the audience’s sobs were the only sound. When the credits finished, the entire audience rose and left the cinema in total silence, a reaction that the reviewer described as unprecedented in a movie theatre.
Abraham and Szor say they made the film out of a sense of obligation to examine the systems behind the mass killing of Palestinian civilians. They focus on the orders, policies, and language that enable such violence, rather than on individual acts of war crime.
While the film includes a Palestinian voice in its closing seconds, the bulk of the narrative centers on Israeli perpetrators. The documentary has been compared to earlier Israeli films such as Waltz With Bashir and Lebanon, but it avoids the “shooting and crying” narrative that critics have associated with those works.