Naza

On the rooftops of Tel Aviv, far from the war zone, Israeli soldiers hold secret conversations at night. Step by step, it becomes clear how within the army and intelligence services it is determined who is a target, which technologies and procedures are used, and how many civilian casualties an attack may cost. Dozens to sometimes hundreds of Palestinian civilians can be considered an acceptable price for targeting one individual. The film poses the painful question: how can the killing of innocent civilians within a military apparatus become so normalized that it is no longer viewed as a moral or legal issue? 

The title refers to Nezek Agavi, 'collateral damage,' the Israeli military term for the expected number of civilian casualties from an airstrike. The term thereby symbolizes the dehumanization that is deeply embedded in the system: civilian deaths are not a tragic side effect, but a foreseeable and accepted part of military operations. 

Naza is the new film from the creators of the Oscar-winning docu No Other Land and premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where the film won the Special Jury Prize.