‘NAZA’ argues apathy is the greatest sin

The Hebrew military term NAZA means collateral damage — as in, the innocent lives lost when targeting certain members of Hamas in recent attacks on Gaza. In 2024, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor released “No Other Land,” a documentary covering Palestinian displacement by the Israeli military. Despite the film winning Best Documentary Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards, it still does not have distribution in the United States due to the film’s clear criticism of Israel in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine. This year, Abraham and Szor return with “NAZA,” an 80-minute documentary revealing the horrors of apathy in the Israel Defense Forces. The structure of the film is quite simple: Abraham interviews 24 anonymous Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers on the rooftops of buildings in Tel Aviv.

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