Israel's culture minister threatens to revoke citizenship of Gaza doc filmmakers

Israel's culture minister has threatened to revoke the citizenship of filmmakers from Gaza. A film by these filmmakers recently won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. According to its synopsis, the film details the systems behind Israel's mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza following the events of October 7, as reported by Haaretz.

In a separate development, Jared Kushner, a key figure in US diplomacy surrounding the Gaza Strip, has spoken about Israel's strikes in Doha, Qatar, last year. According to the Jerusalem Post, Kushner described the Israeli operation as "a terrible thing" and "unsuccessful as a military operation", which led to Israel being "globally isolated".

Kushner also claimed that the Trump administration used the international fallout from the attack to increase pressure on Israel and push it toward an agreement, which ultimately benefited both Israel and the people of Gaza, as reported by the Jerusalem Post.

Brief written by urgent.news from Haaretz, Arutz Sheva - Israel National News, Jerusalem Post — 3 reports on this story. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.