Netanyahu proposes stripping IDF critics of Israeli citizenship

The prime minister vowed to introduce bills punishing those who “defame” the country’s troops Israelis should be stripped of their citizenship if they are found guilty of slandering the military, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said, as the IDF faces new accusations of killing Palestinian civilians in Gaza.In a video address on Wednesday, Netanyahu lashed out at the recently released documentary NAZA, which alleges that the Israeli military and intelligence services used AI-assisted systems to select targets and treated potential civilian deaths as acceptable collateral damage. The film by Oscar-winning Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor premiered at the Venice Film Festival on September 10 and won the Special Jury Prize.Netanyahu vowed to introduce two bills punishing those he said were causing “immense damage” to the IDF.“The first, to revoke the citizenship of anyone who defames [Israeli] soldiers, and the second to hit them in their pockets and increase the statutory damages for defamation they can be sued for by 20 times,” he said, as quoted by Reuters. “Hit them both in the pocket and through their citizenship, because they have no place among us,” Netanyah...