At the Venice Film Festival, a documentary called NAZA — named after an Israeli intelligence euphemism for anticipated civilian deaths in a single airstrike — received a standing ovation of record length and a special jury prize, only for its directors, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, to face threats of citizenship revocation from Israel's culture minister within twenty-four hours. The film, built on years of investigative reporting and testimony from two dozen military and intelligence insiders, arrives amid a conflict that has claimed more than 73,000 Palestinian lives. What unfolds now is an
Film industry rallies behind Israeli directors threatened with citizenship revocation
Israeli attacks in Gaza since 2023 have killed over 73,000 Palestinians, majority civilians, and injured over 174,000 others, representing more than 10% of Gaza's prewar population.