The documentary film NAZA, which provides a detailed look at the surveillance and remote killing of Palestinian civilians during the Gaza conflict, is set for a full digital release on website in early December. Interested viewers can sign up now to receive notification and access links when the film becomes available for streaming. Sign up here to be notified of the exact streaming date and to be sent a link to the film when it is live.
Since its release last month, the documentary has achieved significant reach, screening in 47 countries and drawing an audience of more than 1.5 million people. This performance marks it as one of the most-watched theatrically released documentaries of 2026. While the film has been offered to various distributors and cinemas within Israel, it has yet to be screened domestically. NAZA has received widespread critical acclaim and is selling out in cinemas across the world.
NAZA draws on testimonies from 24 Israeli military intelligence officers and soldiers, detailing the use of artificial intelligence to identify potential Hamas operatives. The sources describe a process where targets were struck at their homes during the night, despite the known risk of causing civilian fatalities. The film’s title itself serves as a reference to an Israeli military acronym used to euphemistically describe civilians projected to be killed during operations. According to the Israeli military’s chief of staff, Eyal Zamir,, The military would “not allow soldiers to be made targets through lies and blood libels” and would use “every tool at our disposal” against the film. The Israeli military claimed there were “substantial errors” in the film and that it had relied on sources who had only a partial picture of the target approval process.
The documentary is the work of Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, with production by.
It expands on investigations originally published between 2023 and 2025 by, the magazine +972, and the news outlet Local Call. The project benefited from the expertise of executive producer Jonathan Glazer and producer James Wilson, the team behind the Oscar-winning film The Zone of Interest. Abraham and Szor were also co-directors of the 2025 Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land. Which documents the destruction of Masafer Yatta, a village in the occupied West Bank targeted by Israeli forces, abraham and Szor were two of the four co-directors – with the Palestinians Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal – of No Other Land.
To ensure the safety of the participants, who spoke under the condition of anonymity, the interviews were recorded at night on Tel Aviv rooftops. The production team utilized digital alteration to mask the voices and appearances of the 24 subjects. In response to military claims that they relied on limited information, the creators noted that they interviewed over 100 sources with deep knowledge of these specific military systems.
Critical reception has been strong, with the film winning the special jury prize at the Venice film festival—where it earned a record-breaking 25-minute standing ovation—and the best political documentary award from the Critics Choice Association. Publications including The New York Times, New York Magazine, the Financial Times, and British Vogue have lauded the film as an important, harrowing piece of journalism. According to in a five-star review, the Financial Times, “journalism and film-making brilliantly entwine”.
The documentary’s release has triggered intense pushback from the Israeli government. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sought the identities of the sources for potential prosecution, accusing them of harming national security. Officials have also threatened the directors with the loss of citizenship and labeled the film as containing blood libels. Far-right groups have directed threats of violence toward the filmmakers and their families. The prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has ordered the attorney general and the head of the Shin Bet security service to reveal the identities of sources interviewed and prosecute them for causing “harm to Israel’s diplomatic and security interests”. With one protester demanding the “death penalty for traitors”, some of the messages included explicit calls for violence.
Concurrently, an Israeli government-promoted project titled NAZA: The Real Story has emerged online. This site, which was initially designed to mimic the aesthetic of the actual documentary, serves as a counter-narrative. Ariel Averbuch, who helped create this site, described the effort as an offensive move intended to shift international attention away from the allegations of civilian casualties presented in the original documentary.
