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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Catherine Shoard in London and Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem

‘This should be condemned by any thinking human’: film industry rallies behind NAZA directors

Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham pose with the special jury prize at the Venice film festival
Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham at this year’s Venice film festival where they won the special jury prize for their documentary NAZA. Photograph: Stéphane Cardinale/Corbis/Getty Images

Film industry heavyweights across the globe have expressed solidarity with Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, the Oscar-winning Israeli directors of documentary NAZA, who have been threatened with having their citizenship revoked by Israel’s culture minister, who accused them of “treason against the state”.

NAZA, which was produced by the Guardian, is named for an acronym euphemistically used by Israel’s intelligence service to indicate how many civilians it expects to die in an airstrike on Gaza. It includes interviews with 24 Israeli military or intelligence soldiers and officers who outlined the AI-powered targeting systems used to bombard Gaza, resulting in the mass killing of Palestinian civilians.

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