At the Venice Film Festival, an Israeli documentary called NAZA has drawn a 25-minute standing ovation for its unflinching account of how artificial intelligence was used to select assassination targets in Gaza at industrial scale. Made by the same filmmakers who won an Academy Award for No Other Land, the film gathers testimony from Israeli military and intelligence insiders who describe civilian deaths not as the fog of war, but as deliberate and calculated outcomes. In an era when technology increasingly mediates the distance between decision and consequence, NAZA asks its audience — and th
Israeli documentary on AI-assisted Gaza targeting receives 25-minute ovation at Venice
The film documents the killing of approximately 73,500 Palestinians and wounding of 174,500 since October 2023 through AI-assisted targeting systems in Gaza.