Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered Israeli officials to uncover and prosecute people involved in NAZA, a documentary featuring anonymised interviews with Israeli military intelligence officers, soldiers and whistleblowers about the war in Gaza.
According to Euronews, Netanyahu asked Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, Shin Bet chief David Zini and Israel Defense Forces chief of staff Lt Gen Eyal Zamir to act “urgently” to identify everyone “involved or appear[ing]” in the film. He also called for the filmmakers, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, to be prosecuted, accusing them of harming Israel’s diplomatic and security interests.
That matters beyond a culture-war quarrel over an award-winning film. The people in NAZA are not presented as public advocates giving a press conference under their own names. Euronews reports that the documentary used digital alteration of faces and voices to conceal the identities of 24 participants. If a government is openly directing security and legal authorities to strip away those protections, the issue is not only what the film claims. It is whether people inside a military system can speak about that system without the state treating testimony itself as an offence.
The film, which premiered in Venice and won the Special Jury Prize, draws on reporting published between 2023 and 2025 by +972 Magazine, Local Call and The Guardian, according to Euronews. Its synopsis says it shows “the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.” The documentary reportedly includes accounts of how targeting decisions were made using AI and automated surveillance tools, and alleges that strikes were carried out despite knowledge that civilians were in the area.
Those are grave allegations, and the public record here remains incomplete. The Euronews report does not say what specific criminal provision Netanyahu believes was violated, whether prosecutors have opened a case, or whether the identities of the interviewees can in fact be uncovered. It also does not establish that the accounts in the film have been independently verified in full.
What is established is narrower and still significant: the head of government has moved from denouncing a film to demanding state action against the people who made it possible. For masked sources who spoke from inside a war, that is not an abstract dispute about cinema.
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