{"id":4653,"date":"2026-09-19T08:24:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T08:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=4653"},"modified":"2026-09-19T08:24:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T08:24:03","slug":"naza-why-are-old-gaza-allegations-causing-new-fury-in-israel-israel-palestine-conflict-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=4653","title":{"rendered":"NAZA: Why are old Gaza allegations causing new fury in Israel? | Israel-Palestine conflict News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Israel\u2019s bitter political divisions are particularly sharp before the country\u2019s October elections. But the furious response to a new documentary about the military\u2019s actions in the genocidal war on Gaza has revealed an issue that much of Israel\u2019s political and media establishment appears united on.<\/p>\n

Few of the central allegations in NAZA, made by Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, are new. Reports that the Israeli military was relying on artificial intelligence systems to generate targets in Gaza, often killing the inhabitants of entire buildings to kill just one individual identified by the system, were reported in April 2024.<\/p>\n

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Other accusations against Israel, such as committing genocide, deliberately causing a famine, and unlawfully killing children, have also not received much attention in Israel.<\/p>\n

In contrast, NAZA has unleashed a litany of abuse from across Israel, and brought the allegations to the centre of Israel\u2019s political debate.<\/p>\n

Culture Minister Miki Zohar reacted to the film\u2019s premiere at the Venice Film Festival \u2013 where it received a 25-minute standing ovation \u2013 by calling<\/a> for the directors to be stripped of their citizenship and to be investigated by the internal intelligence service for treason.<\/p>\n

Army chief Eyal Zamir has dismissed the film as being built on blood libel and ordered a legal probe to hunt down its military and intelligence sources.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also cited the film when advancing legislation to revoke citizenship from anyone deemed to be smearing the country\u2019s soldiers, while in the coastal city of Ashdod, graffiti branding the directors \u201ctraitors\u201d has appeared on the walls.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t really understand the extent of the madness from outside of the country,\u201d Orly Noy, an editor at Local Call, which first carried many of the accusations contained in the film, said. \u201cThey\u2019re attacking the friends and families of [the filmmakers] Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor. They\u2019re talking about revoking their citizenship. They\u2019re asking the Shin Bet to investigate them \u2013 for making a film, and it isn\u2019t just the politicians. Journalists, who you might expect to show some kind of solidarity with them, are competing to attack them. It\u2019s scary.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In late 2025, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported escalating censorship and harassment in Israel, with Israeli journalists telling the organisation that the media\u2019s approach had become \u201cpart of the war effort\u201d and, by extension, significantly shaped Israeli view of their war on Gaza.<\/p>\n

In October 2025, a study by the Israeli think tank Molad found that only 3 percent of Channel 12\u2019s coverage of the first six months of the war mentioned Gaza\u2019s humanitarian crisis. Of 206 war-related images and video clips broadcast by the network, Israel\u2019s most-watched channel, only two showed Palestinian civilian casualties.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, before the film\u2019s release, polls found that most Israelis believed the coverage they were receiving of the military\u2019s conduct in Gaza was balanced.<\/p>\n

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Director Yuval Abraham and Director Rachel Szor winners of the Special Jury Prize for \u201cNaza\u201d attend a photocall on the red carpet following the closing ceremony of the 83rd Venice Film Festival at Venice Lido on September 12, 2026 [Tiziana Fabi\/AFP]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI guess it was because the mainstream media outlets in Israel did not investigate the conduct of the army during the war in Gaza, and hardly covered the war from the Palestinian point of view,\u201d Anat Saragusti, the Israeli jurist and journalist responsible for press freedom at the Union of Journalists in Israel, said of the shock that had accompanied the release of the film. \u201c[The Israeli media] hardly reported on the human toll and the scale of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n

Compounding the gap, Saragusti said, was a deep-seated national narrative: that the war had been imposed on Israel, that Hamas had carried out a massacre on October 7, 2023, and that Hamas\u2019s use of civilians as human shields made mass casualties in Gaza all but unavoidable.<\/p>\n

Palestinian deaths, in this telling, were framed less as the product of Israeli conduct than as collateral damage forced on Israel by its enemy\u2019s tactics, she said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEven journalists that usually support the anti-Netanyahu bloc have criticised the filmmakers,\u201d Israeli political sociologist Daniel Bar-Tal said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIsraeli Jews deny the genocide,\u201d he continued, \u201cEven all the opposition parties joined the vicious criticism of the filmmakers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The language used against the filmmakers has been echoed by some of Netanyahu\u2019s most prominent political rivals.<\/p>\n

On Monday, former military chief and one of Netanyahu\u2019s principal rivals Gadi Eisenkot denounced the film for \u201cmoral blindness, a detachment from reality, and harm to the State of Israel in a difficult hour\u201d.<\/p>\n

Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who is also running in October\u2019s election, called the film a \u201chorrific blood libel against our sons and daughters\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything gets heightened the closer to the election we get,\u201d Noy said. \u201cBut I think only now, for those of us who live here, is the extent of the fascism becoming clear. Journalists, politicians and the media are forming some kind of incitement machine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had anxieties over where Israel had been going for a long time,\u201d she said, \u201cbut right now I\u2019m genuinely worried for my friends and colleagues.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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