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 the army and intelligence services determine 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 eliminating a single target. _Naza_ thus poses the painful question: how can the killing of innocent civilians become so normalized within a military apparatus that it is no longer seen as a moral or legal problem? The title refers to Nezek Agavi, ‘collateral damage’, the Israeli military term for the expected number of civilian casualties of an airstrike. The term thus symbolizes the dehumanization that is deeply embedded in the system: civilian deaths are not a tragic side effect, but a foreseen and accepted part of military operations. _Naza_ by creators Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor (_No Other Land_) premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where the film won the Special Jury Prize.