Who Directed NAZA?
NAZA was directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, two Israeli filmmakers who were also among the four co-directors of the Academy Award-winning documentary No Other Land.
Their 2026 film NAZA moves from the West Bank setting of their earlier collaboration to the Israeli military and intelligence systems used during the Gaza war.
Yuval Abraham
Yuval Abraham is an Israeli investigative journalist and filmmaker. His reporting has appeared through +972 Magazine and Local Call and has focused heavily on Israel, the occupied Palestinian territories, surveillance and military policy.
Before NAZA premiered, Abraham had already reported on several of the targeting systems that later became central to the documentary, including the investigation that introduced a wide audience to the terms Lavender and “Where’s Daddy?”.
In NAZA, the anonymized military and intelligence sources speak to the directors.
Rachel Szor
Rachel Szor is an Israeli filmmaker and cinematographer. She co-directed No Other Land and serves as a director and key visual author of NAZA.
The visual design of NAZA is unusually important to the film’s identity. Much of the testimony was filmed at night on rooftops in Tel Aviv, with sources obscured rather than photographed conventionally. The city lights and surveillance-like framing are part of the documentary’s visual language.
Their earlier film: No Other Land
Abraham and Szor co-directed No Other Land with Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal. The film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
That connection is one reason searches for NAZA often overlap with searches for No Other Land, Abraham and Szor individually, and executive producer Jonathan Glazer.
How was NAZA developed?
The Guardian says the documentary builds on investigations published from 2023 to 2025 by The Guardian, +972 Magazine and Local Call.
The finished film contains testimony from 24 anonymous Israeli military and intelligence insiders. After the IDF criticized the documentary, a Guardian spokesperson said the team had interviewed more than 100 sources over three years, including senior commanders, and had checked the testimonies against leaked classified documents and other confidential sources.
Why were the interviews filmed anonymously?
The sources discuss sensitive military and intelligence procedures. Their faces are hidden and voices may be altered or otherwise protected.
The filmmakers say that choice enabled them to obtain testimony that might otherwise not have been given publicly. It also creates an evidentiary challenge for viewers because they cannot independently assess the sources' identities or roles.
The IDF has made that point a major part of its criticism, arguing that anonymous interviewees often describe only one stage of a larger process. The Guardian rejects that description as false and says the interviewees include people involved in final authorisation. A Guardian spokesperson said the reporting was broader than the 24 people shown on screen.
Who produced NAZA?
NAZA was produced by The Guardian. Current credits list producers Harry Davies, Lindsay Poulton and James Wilson, with filmmaker Jonathan Glazer as executive producer.