"So perhaps the question is no longer: why would Israeli forces ever kill children? Perhaps the question instead should be: how much Israeli testimony describing the killing of children are we expected to ignore?"

A scene from NAZA, directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor. Photograph: NAZA/The Guardian

 

I’ve debated with Israel’s most fervent defenders – NAZA debunks their talking points: The film’s testimonies from Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers expose years of baseless propaganda. 

Don’t take my word – take theirs

Mehdi Hasan

 

Opinion 

NAZA 

Fri 16 Oct 2026 

I watched the extraordinary new Guardian-produced documentary from Oscar-winning Israeli film-makers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor the other night, and I have struggled to stop thinking about it ever since. The film’s title comes from a Hebrew military term for collateral damage, and it consists of eye-opening interviews with two dozen Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers sitting in darkness, often on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, their voices “digitally altered to disguise their identities”.

At one point, Abraham asks one of the soldiers a remarkably blunt question.

“Do you think it’s a genocide?”

“Yes,” the soldier replies. “Completely.”

He points to what he describes as the “intentional” killing of Palestinian civilians, including children.

“We have to describe things as they really are.” That sentence could serve as the film’s subtitle. Because for the past three years, there have in effect been two wars over Gaza: the war itself, and the war over how we are allowed to describe it... READ MORE  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/16/naza-israel-film 

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