100 former French and British ambassadors accuse Israel of ethnic cleansing

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Cover image: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his wife Sara on the day of the funeral service for late U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 28, 2026. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein REUTERS - Evelyn Hockstein 04:24 Issued on: 22/08/2026 - 14:30 Former British and French diplomats are urging action over what they say is Israel’s ‘erasure’ of Palestine. More than 100 of those diplomats have penned a letter to the French President and the British Prime Minister, calling for a ban on trade and arms sales to press Israel to accept a Palestinian state. The unprecedented joint letter directly accuses Israel of ethnic cleansing and warns that the world no longer sees it as a genuine democracy. Our correspondent in Jerusalem Noga Tarnopolsky tells us about the significance of this letter. Keywords for this article On the ground Middle East