🚨EXPOSED: Did Israel Build an SECRET AI MACHINE to Target Civilians? (NAZA Controversy)

Ben Hilton (0:00)

This last week, a film was screened at the Venice Film Festival called Naza. The film, directed by a couple of Israelis, was awarded the Special Jury Prize. And when it was announced, it was greeted with a full 25 minutes of standing ovation. Why? Because it paints a picture of the supposed Israeli war crimes committed in Gaza with a surprising amount of emotional and journalistic surety. But as we'll see over the next few minutes, this film is anything but journalistic. There are major flaws in the claims made by the film and serious doubts about the directors themselves and their possible ties to Hamas.

Let's break down what this film is exactly. Then we'll get into who made it and the deeper implications this has for Israel. The film's name, Naza, is an Israeli acronym for collateral damage or civilian casualties. And more than likely chosen by the filmmakers for the invocation of the word Nazi. To kick this off, I want to play a clip from the film itself. At the end of the clip, you see 20, 30, and they are 300 people.

What is the highest number you remember was attacked?

SPEAKER_2 (1:15)

I don't know how many were killed, because we haven't checked it yet, but it was a 500-kilogram on one person.

Ben Hilton (1:26)

I think you can go to every house and see how many people are supposed to get hurt So, they capture all of it, right?

SPEAKER_2 (1:35)

Right in this level, Dira 6, Koma 5, Ahmaz Boutour and all of his family.

Ben Hilton (1:45)

As you can see from that clip, the film is a series of conversations with 24 supposed IDF soldiers who served in Israel's Unit 8200 over the course of this war. Unit 8200 is Israel's intelligence operations. And I say supposedly because the faces and voices of these soldiers are fully disguised in the film and the filmmakers refuse to release the identities of those involved, which right off the bat is a major red flag. In these interviews with the supposed IDF soldiers, a broad picture is painted and that picture goes something like this. During the war with Hamas, Israel used an AI model to determine the collateral damage of a potential strike in Gaza with cold calculation.

And many strikes were authorized that killed dozens or hundreds of civilians with Israel's full knowledge that this would happen. And the words of this post on X from this last week, quote, X Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers broke their silence describing an ice cold system where strikes were calculated to kill as many people as possible in Gaza. Now there are a number of red flags with these claims made in the film.

One is, were any of these supposed IDF soldiers actually in a position to know what they were talking about? Unit 8200 is the biggest unit in the IDF, with somewhere around 5,000 to 7,000 members. Finding a few dozen disaffected soldiers to tell a story on camera with their faces and voices masked isn't that difficult to do. And just because words were spoken, we don't have any idea if they were telling the truth or if they actually knew or understood what they were doing. A second red flag is we don't know with any kind of certainty what kind of AI we're even talking about here. AI in one form or another has been around as a form of coding for decades at this point, and AI code is embedded at nearly every layer of military software, in some form or another, for Israel and pretty much every other modern military. There is a huge difference between a piece of software using AI versus a piece of software being run by AI. And as far as I know, the film doesn't distinguish between the two.

For their part, the IDF issued a statement in response to the film where they said, quote, decisions regarding the selection and approval of strikes in the IDF are made by human personnel only in accordance with IDF guidelines, and not by artificial intelligence. But all of that aside for a moment. If the IDF is indeed using AI to predict how many civilians will be affected by a strike on a terrorist position as the film posits, isn't that actually a positive thing? If Israel truly didn't care about civilian casualties, why would they take the time to develop an AI model to figure out exactly what the cost of the strike will be in advance? We'll get into more of this in a second, but first, guys, I don't know if you've seen it yet or not, but we actually have a second channel called The Israel Guys Outdoors. Most of what we do is actually boots on the ground volunteer work in Israel's heartland, and Nate Waller takes you deep inside of that work in some of the most interesting places in Israel. I'll play a little clip here.