Israel's Culture Minister, Miki Zohar, has said he will seek to revoke the citizenship of Oscar-winning filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor over their new documentary NAZA, branding the film "vile" and accusing them of treason. The film, which won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, features testimony from Israeli military officers detailing alleged systems used to target and kill civilians in Gaza. The threat marks an escalation of the minister's ongoing campaign against Israeli filmmakers whose work he views as damaging to the country's reputation, and raises questions about press freedom and the treatment of dissenting voices within Israel's film industry.

NAZA takes its title from a military acronym used as shorthand for civilian casualties and draws on testimony from 24 Israeli military officers. It received no Israeli public funding, instead being backed partly by The Guardian, and does not yet have Israeli distribution, though the filmmakers hope to release it widely there as well as in the US and Germany. Abraham previously co-directed the Oscar-winning No Other Land, which Zohar also criticised, and the minister has separately overhauled Israel's film financing system this year to redirect funding away from politically sensitive independent productions towards more commercially oriented films.