Gaza: 'Netanyahu wants a perpetual war,' Palestinian ambassador to UK says FRANCE 24 spoke to the Palestinian ambassador to the UK, Husam Zomlot. As the war in Gaza nears its sixth month with more than 33,000 Palestinians killed, Zomlot said he thinks Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu "wants to have a perpetual war". 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".