Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham collected the testimony of 24 insiders who helped remotely target Gazans\u2019 homes. They explain how they got these self-professed \u2018small cogs\u2019 to talk about the killing<\/p>\n
On a darkened rooftop in Tel Aviv, Israeli intelligence officers outline the details of their work. These men tell us how they helped develop an AI mapping tool that trawled for phone signals and recommended apartment buildings in Gaza to bomb. Indirectly, they admit, they are responsible for thousands of deaths, but they never spoke up because that wasn\u2019t their place. \u201cMy role is technical,\u201d says one. \u201cI\u2019m just a small cog,\u201d says another.<\/p>\n
NAZA \u2013 directed by the Israeli film-makers Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham and produced by the Guardian \u2013 is a chilling documentary about a mass slaughter that was authorised at the highest levels of government. But it is also, primarily, about the process, the system, the little links in the killing chain. Szor and Abraham build their film around the accounts of 24 anonymised military and intelligence insiders. NAZA, we learn, is an acronym used by the intelligence service to indicate how many civilians it expects to die in an airstrike on Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces prefer to target Hamas terrorists in their homes at night \u2013 and if they live with their family, or in heavily populated neighbourhoods, too bad. At one point, a source claims, approval was given to kill 500 NAZA for one Hamas member.<\/p>\n
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