TIMES OF ISRAEL
What ‘Naza’ really means: The truth about collateral damage
Sarit Zehavi
September 17, 2026
The creators of the recent documentary, “NAZA,” about “Naza” (a Hebrew military acronym for Nezek Agavi – collateral damage) did not have to work too hard to discover the truth. They could have simply interviewed me. I would have stood in front of the camera, without hiding my identity, on the roof of my house nine kilometers (5.6 miles) from Lebanon, where we endured endless barrages of rockets, and explained the reality on the ground. A little less than 20 years ago, I was one of the founders of the unit within the IDF that deals with warning populations on the other side of enemy lines and preserving civilian lives. We built the processes that define how to issue evacuation warnings, and how to track evacuations. I was personally involved in formulating target approval processes and operational discussions. READ MORE
CAMERA Why did the crowd applaud ‘Naza” at the Venice Film Festival ? What exactly was the audience applauding when the screening of “Naza“ ended at the Venice Film Festival? What was it? The war? The addition of yet more false material intended to constrain Israel’s ability to defend itself? The sorry spectacle of two Jews debasing themselves as an offering to prejudice?…They were applauding out of fear. Fear of ostracism, of cancellation, of the social, artistic, and moral gulag…The crowd kept applauding because not to do so would have meant appearing to support the alleged genocide. What they truly feared, she argued, was social death, inevitably followed by professional death—one of the harshest punishments a modern Western society can impose on people who have committed no crime but crossed a social boundary.
JPOST Micha Danzig:c‘NAZA’ documentary can’t explain why a military bent on genocide would need AI Set the factual dispute aside and examine only the logic the film asks its audience to accept, because that logic collapses before any fact gets checked: If the goal was “genocide,” actual mass killing of a civilian population as such, why would anyone build an AI targeting system to do it? Genocide does not require precision. It requires the opposite. A military bent on erasing a population does not build software to identify individual operatives inside specific apartments. It carpet bombs the map, since dumb bombs kill more people faster and cheaper than any precision system devised.
