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'NAZA' in Venice: When Counting the Casualties Becomes the Crime

Cheered for 25 minutes at the Venice Film Festival, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor's documentary accuses the IDF of having "calculated in advance" its civilian casualties. But that calculation has a name in the laws of war: proportionality. The film doesn't put Israel on trial — it indicts the one rule that separates an army from a militia.

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