Netanyahu Orders Prosecution of Soldiers Who Spoke in Gaza Documentary NAZA
NAZA: Netanyahu orders identification and prosecution of film's interviewees
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the attorney general and Shin Bet chief to identify and prosecute soldiers and officers interviewed in NAZA, an award-winning documentary about Israel's mass killing of civilians in Gaza. The film, directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor and produced by the Guardian, won the special jury prize at Venice. Netanyahu accuses the interviewees of harming Israel's diplomatic and security interests. The directors have faced threats to strip their citizenship and accusations of treason.
These threats constitute a blatant act of intimidation against journalists who have simply been doing their job, in strict accordance with ethical standards and in the public interest.
- freakynit
Ouch!! Someone is hurt by truth. What a loser.
- spongebobism
NAZA's subtitle doesn't overpromise. It is very much worth watching, especially for tech people. Some of the interviews get into the details of unit 8200's tech, e.g. they mention some feature inputs that their Hamas-not-Hamas classifier is based on.
Most of the facts aren't new, for example Haaretz was reporting as it was happening on the escalating amount of civilian casualties considered acceptable in a strike on a random Hamas recruit. I even remember doing the same calculation as one interviewee (~100k Hamas members * ~20 NAZA = the entire population of Gaza) at the time, and being similarly disturbed. But it's something else still to get the inside view, including the participants' motivations.
- apexalpha
"When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say."