Filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Racheli, in partnership with The Guardian, announced that the documentary NAZA will be made freely available online in November with no time limit, and has been offered at no charge to Israeli cinemas for earlier screenings. The film is presented as the product of three years of investigative reporting with corroborated details and includes on-camera testimony from 24 soldiers and veterans. Those testimonies describe systemic operations in Gaza: approvals in the hundreds for contested operations, house raids and sustained strikes on family homes, burning and large-scale physical destruction, shootings of unarmed people crossing imagined lines, and killings at food distribution points. The filmmakers assert the conflict has produced more than 73,000 deaths - predominantly civilians - and argue the normalization of a doctrine that denies anyone can be uninvolved amounts to an exterminatory approach.
The announcement frames the release as a public-duty intervention: journalism and criticism are defended as obligations, not betrayal, and soldiers are urged to come forward despite pressure to hide evidence for propaganda reasons. The release is described as breaking a long wall of domestic silence, though it has already provoked intense backlash, threats, and accusations of treachery alongside widespread support and offers of solidarity. The filmmakers say personal costs and intimidation will not deter them from continuing to campaign and return to Israel to press for accountability.
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