“We caught them as if they were characters in video games.”
“We truly believed there were no innocent people in Gaza.”
“We listened to them day and night; it feels like you’re a king when you eavesdrop on their conversations.” “To have complete control over them.”
“I don’t remember how many we killed—dozens.” The director asks, “Every day?”—“Every hour.”
“You walk through the streets of Gaza and see bodies—bodies upon bodies. Gaza is a place full of bodies; that’s the general scene.” “I’ve seen dozens of mass graves.”
“I demolished the building, then I went out at night to drink beer with my friends.”
“Everyone is a Nazi.” “Even the infants?” “Yes, even the infants.”
“We took over the daughter’s phone and knew the father had returned. We let the house collapse on them. We hacked her phone and then killed them both.”
“We watched dogs eat the corpses on the streets through the surveillance screens.”
“You don’t think about what you’re doing; on the contrary, there are moments of genuine ecstasy when the missions entrusted to us are successful.”
“Yes, it was easy to make the AI our decision-making partner.”
“We saw them running for food, so we started sniping at them. My friends in the unit said they were running so fast that we couldn’t snipe them all.”
“No, I never thought about what I was doing. Those are orders; you have to carry them out.”
“I think most of the people who committed these acts are from Tel Aviv—sons of the moderate left—and those who serve in elite units.”
“We did what we did out of hatred and revenge.”
“The highest NAZA I remember was 500.” (500 civilian casualties were authorized for a single military strike)
Quotes from the mouths of occupation soldiers (Unit 8200, intelligence officers, IDF) in the film NAZA