Naza

In secret conversations on the rooftops of Tel Aviv at night, the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza are revealed by the people who designed and operated them.

We made this film out of a sense of obligation to use our position as Israelis to examine a system of mass killing of Palestinan civilians for which our country is responsible. While filming military officers on rooftops at night in Tel Aviv over the past three years, we found ourselves asking the very questions that were asked by our grandparents’ generation and throughout the 20th century: how does one group of people allow the total dehumanisation of another? What do the inner workings of a such system look like? Many of the revelations in the film were published almost immediately as we learned of them, in the months following the October 7th attacks by +972 Magazine and Local Call in collaboration with The Guardian, which has made this film with us. The film lets us explore something deeper than we could in our investigative journalism alone: not only the words being said but also those that are not said, the silence. It is up to all of us to break that silence.