Natasha Hausdorff discusses NAZA "documentary" allegations about IDF in Gaza

17 September 2026 1 views

Well, friend, this video is an interview put out by the UKLFI Charitable Trust. In it, their legal director Natasha Hausdorff sits down to examine a new documentary called NAZA and the serious charges it levels against the IDF’s conduct in Gaza.

The film, from what we are told, leans heavily on the words of twenty-four anonymous Israeli soldiers and intelligence people. It paints a picture of a system that knowingly accepted large numbers of civilian deaths and used artificial intelligence programs—names like Lavender and Habsora come up—to pick out targets. The IDF has come out strongly against that portrayal.

Hausdorff walks through the actual law of armed conflict. She reminds us that the principle of proportionality requires a commander to weigh expected civilian harm against the concrete military advantage of a strike. Anticipating that civilians might be hurt is not, by itself, a crime—it is what the law demands before a weapon is ever released. International law does not set a hard number of civilian lives that may be lost; each attack must be judged on its own facts. Hamas’s practice of embedding itself among the civilian population is also taken into account.

She questions how much weight can be given to sources whose names, ranks, and firsthand knowledge cannot be checked. She draws a line between claims about particular incidents and proof of a systematic policy. And she notes that Israel is often measured by a standard not applied to other Western armies.

Hausdorff’s conclusion is measured: the publicly described material does not establish the sweeping policy the filmmakers allege. That does not mean every single strike was lawful; specific cases with dates and places should still be looked into.

In short, the video is a careful legal examination of the documentary’s claims, set against the actual rules that govern war. It invites the viewer to separate emotion from the letter of the law and to weigh the evidence that is actually on the table.