Israeli film on Gaza receives 25-minute ovation at Venice premiere

A film documenting Israel’s use of AI-powered systems to target Palestinians in Gaza has received a 25-minute standing ovation at its premiere at the Venice Film Festival.

The 80-minute film, NAZA, was directed by Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, who won an Oscar in 2025 for No Other Land, a documentary on Israeli settler pogroms in the occupied West Bank, made with Palestinian codirectors Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal.

The result of a nearly three-year investigation, the film is built on testimony from Israeli military and intelligence sources who spoke on the condition that their identities be concealed. Their voices and faces were digitally altered, and they were filmed at night on Tel Aviv rooftops.

Israeli minister pledges to strip Gaza genocide documentary filmmakers of citizenship

The Israeli Minister of Culture and Sports has threatened to revoke the citizenship of two film directors who produced a documentary about Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.

In a post on X, Miki Zohar accused Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham of “betraying the state”, adding that he will “act immediately to revoke the Israeli citizenship” for the pair.

The documentary won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday.

Abraham said Israeli intelligence officers explained that the mass killings in Gaza were “not by accident, but by design”. The film includes testimony from 24 whistleblowers about their roles in surveillance and remote killings in the besieged enclave.

Hundreds more Israeli settlers pour into Al-Aqsa compound

Nearly 500 Israeli settlers have stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem throughout the morning, the Jerusalem governorate has said.

The settlers performed prayers and rituals – which are not permitted for non-Muslims at the site – as Israeli forces tightened their measures around the mosque and the Old City.

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, began on Friday.

The Jerusalem governorate added that an Israeli media blackout surrounding the settlers’ incursions has raised concerns over attempts to impose new realities on the ground at the site, which is considered the third-holiest in Islam.

What the Israelis are doing at the Al-Aqsa compound for years has nothing to do with religion but religionized violent regression., which turning the clock back to biblical times and erasing 400 years of Palestinian history by force is.

French politician says Netanyahu triggered ‘cascade of disastrous events’ in Middle East

Left-wing French politician Jean-Luc Melenchon says Netanyahu has triggered a “cascade of disastrous events” in the Middle East, while also criticizing Europe’s acquiescence to the US.

“The victory of the Houthis, Iran’s allies, seizing control of access to the Suez Canal, reshapes far more broadly than just the local balance of power,” Melenchon said on X.

“Netanyahu has succeeded in triggering a cascade of disastrous events for his country, its allies, and the US empire. The supply blockades thus imposed will cost the Europeans dearly. Such is the reckoning for their unconditional support of Netanyahu’s policies and their submission to Trump.”

Melenchon plans to run for president in next year’s elections and has pledged to withdraw France from NATO if successful. He is a strong critic of Israel and Western foreign policy.

The 12-day preemptive war from June 13, 2025 to June 25, 2025, and the resumption of this war since February 28, 2026, both are not triggered but inflicted by Netanyahu.

Then, Netanyahu has been obsessed with Iran's nuclear program for more than 30 years.