In the Sala Grande at Venice, twenty-five minutes of sustained applause greeted a documentary about the machinery of killing — and that applause, traveling back across the Mediterranean, became something else entirely: a political detonation. NAZA, an eighty-minute film produced by The Guardian in which anonymized Israeli military insiders describe AI-assisted targeting systems used in Gaza, has transformed from an act of witness into a weapon in Israel's October elections, with its directors now living under credible death threats and its prime minister drafting laws to strip citizenship from
Gaza Documentary Sparks Stark Divide: Venice Ovation, Israeli Death Threats
Over 73,000 Palestinians have been killed in the war depicted in the documentary; Israeli film-makers face credible death threats and have been effectively pushed into exile.
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