Filmmakers of the documentary, No Man’s Land, have been called out by Israel Minister of Culture, Miki Zohar, to have their Israel citizenship revoked. Co-directors of No Man’s Land, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, have recently had their North American premiere of their new documentary Naza, at the Toronto Film Festival.

Previously they premiered it at the Venice Film Festival and Zohar has taken to X to say the movie is, “Vile,” and  “I will immediately take action to revoke the Israeli citizenship of these vile creators for treason against the country.” According to the synopsis of the film, the documentary shows “the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.”

Zohar added on X, “This is exactly the reason I led the important reform in cinema so that Israeli citizens will no longer have to pay out of their own pockets for the harm to IDF soldiers and the State of Israel,” which the movie never received public funding for.

The documentary received the Special Jury prize at the premiere in Venice, which is given to films that exude originality and carry the spirit of investigations. During the acceptance speech, Abraham called out, “all the people — the Israeli politicians, the journalists back home—who are now attacking this film, denying it, without even seeing it,” adding that what’s happening in Gaza,”has been documented and is known from the very first day, thanks to Palestinian journalists, [and] more than 200 [journalists] have been killed in Gaza by the Israelis; their voices were silenced and denied.”