In ‘NAZA,’ the documentary in which two dozen Israeli military personnel admit to committing war crimes and genocide in Gaza, soldiers likened the ongoing slaughter of 73,000 Palestinians, more than a quarter of them children, to playing video games. “I wanted to leave ten minutes in,” a retired lawyer said after watching it at IFC Center. “It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever seen.” She hoped everyone would watch it. That sentiment has been a recurring theme in reviews. Over the next two months, ‘NAZA’ will continue its rollout to theaters across the U.S. In late November, ‘NAZA’ will begin streaming for free on ‘The Guardian’’s website, allowing it to reach an even bigger global audience. The film’s popularity has led to intense criticism from pro-Israel and pro-Palestine factions alike. On both sides are those who want the anonymous IDF personnel identified — so that they can be charged with either war crimes or, perhaps, treason. And on both sides are those attacking the Israeli filmmakers, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, for telling the story from their country’s vantage point. ‘NAZA’’s goal is to expose the inner workings of a genocidal system, says Ben Reiff, Abraham’s editor at +972 Magazine, which published many of the initial investigations built upon in the film. “The idea is that it can help build cases for accountability on a much bigger scale than would be true of trying individual soldiers in a handful of cases when actually thousands of soldiers and the highest levels of state have overseen and ordered this campaign of annihilation,” he says. Whether the film can be used to advance the case for genocide at the ICJ or assist in issuing arrest warrants for war crimes at the ICC, however, may be more complicated than convincing viewers. Read Rachel Corbett’s full report: nymag.visitlink.me/tGqTPb