As the war in Gaza enters its six month – and more than 33,000 Palestinians have been killed – FRANCE 24 spoke to the Palestinian ambassador to the UK, Husam Zomlot. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu “wants to have a perpetual war”, Zomlot told FRANCE 24. The ambassador cited Netanyahu’s “personal reasons” and also “strategic interests of his government and the Israeli establishment to finish off a job that started 76 years ago, which is the ethnic cleansing of Palestine”.
![‘Release my son’: Thai families plea for help for loved ones kidnapped in Israel](https://s.france24.com/media/display/07f645ec-6903-11ee-b43e-005056a90321/w:1280/p:16x9/m:{"brand":"FRANCE24","lang":"EN","program":"","cartouche":"ISRAEL%20-%20HAMAS%20WAR","hash":"ec7953fa999a94f81fe6e172c0f25eab6de8528fa5f77e865c2155962cffb4e3","title":"Families%20of%20Thai%20victims%20in%20anguish","id":"25aba80c-45fb-11ec-90e2-005056bf30b7"}/EN_20231012_141249_141457_CS.jpg "‘Release my son’: Thai families plea for help for loved ones kidnapped in Israel")