Co-director Yuval Abraham says documentary exposing Israeli abuses will be available online in November.<\/p>\n
A documentary that accuses Israel of using AI to carry out mass civilian killings in Gaza will be available to stream online for free once its theatrical rollout in more than 50 countries is complete.<\/p>\n
Israeli filmmaker Yuval Abraham, who co-directed NAZA<\/a> with fellow Israeli filmmaker Rachel Szor, announced on Thursday that viewers will be able to stream the award-winning film from November on The Guardian\u2019s website. The UK newspaper helped produce the film.<\/p>\n Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list<\/p>\n \u201cI know there is enormous demand to watch the film, and I hope that in this way, everyone will soon be able to see it: whether in cinemas or online in a few weeks,\u201d Abraham said in a post on X.<\/p>\n \u201cWe made the film to spark a public discussion about the [Israeli] government\u2019s actions in Gaza, the killing of more than 73,000 people, most of them civilians, the normalisation of a war of extermination, of the notion that \u2018there are no uninvolved\u2019,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n NAZA, which means \u201ccollateral damage\u201d in Hebrew, will premiere in the United States on Saturday at the New York Film Festival.<\/p>\n The documentary is also due to premiere in several other countries, including the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Canada.<\/p>\n NAZA is 80 minutes long and is the result of a nearly three-year investigation into Israel\u2019s genocidal war on Gaza. The documentary is based on testimony from Israeli military and intelligence sources whose identities have been concealed.<\/p>\n One of the film\u2019s subjects described the process of using AI to kill Palestinians in the enclave as \u201cinsanely fun\u201d and said it was like playing a \u201cvideo game\u201d. Another described it as a \u201cmission\u201d.<\/p>\n The sources explain in detail an AI system called Lavender<\/a>, which they said was used to identify assassination targets.<\/p>\n Israel oversees a system of mass surveillance in Gaza, monitoring people\u2019s phone calls, movements and interactions. Lavender allegedly uses this data when deciding who to assassinate and is believed to have an error rate of up to 10 percent.<\/p>\n According to another of the film\u2019s subjects, an attack was approved despite knowledge that as many as 500 civilians could be killed.<\/p>\n NAZA was awarded the Special Jury Prize at this year\u2019s Venice International Film Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n Israel has been condemned by several human rights organisations for its atrocities in Gaza. Amnesty International and Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, among others, say Israel is committing a genocide.<\/p>\n