{"id":643377,"date":"2026-10-11T18:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T18:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/643377\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T18:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T18:32:09","slug":"benjamin-netanyahu-demands-investigation-into-naza-documentary-participants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/643377\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Netanyahu demands investigation into &#8216;NAZA&#8217; documentary participants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded on Sunday that the justice system prosecute the people who participated in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-910273\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NAZA<\/a>\u00a0documentary for severe information security offenses, criminal defamation, and damage to Israel&#8217;s diplomatic and security interests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">According to a letter released by the Prime Minister\u2019s Office, the prime minister asked the IDF Chief of Staff, Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir, Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) Director David Zini, and Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara to launch a comprehensive investigation into the participants of the documentary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The film spins a false, misleading, and biased narrative that defames the State of Israel and the IDF globally and severely damages Israel&#8217;s standing,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/benjamin-netanyahu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netanyahu<\/a> said at the beginning of the letter.<\/p>\n<p>Three <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-910374\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Israeli creators<\/a> have released a documentary designed to directly counter and discredit NAZA, the controversial, Venice Film Festival award-winning film that alleges systematic Israeli military misconduct in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>The counter-project, titled NAZA: The Real Story, dropped with English subtitles in an effort to immediately shape the global narrative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Directed by Roy Danino, Hagai Gutman, and Ariel Orbuch, the documentary positions itself as an explicit rebuttal of the original film\u2019s anonymous whistleblower claims.<\/p>\n<p>The creators of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-911208\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NAZA, The True Story<\/a> received certificates of appreciation from National Public Diplomacy Directorate head Tzipi Hotovely on Thursday, the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office announced.<\/p>\n<p>According to the PMO, NAZA, The True Story &#8220;features testimonies from soldiers, refutes the blood libels against IDF soldiers and commanders, thereby defending our soldiers and the State of Israel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maariv and Jerusalem Post Staff contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded on Sunday that the justice system prosecute the people who participated in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21624,49,85,46,43,2396,73],"class_list":["post-643377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-attorney-general","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-prime-minister","tag-shin-bet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}