SECURITY COUNCIL STUNNED INTO SILENCE “100 YEARS TO HOLD FUNERALS to HONOUR ALL KILLED IN GAZA”
May 30, 2024Majed Bamya, the Deputy Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the UN, delivers a powerful speech at a UN Security Council Emergency meeting on Rafah.
“If the Israeli assault stopped today, and we decided to hold a funeral every single day for each Palestinian killed in the last eight months, it would take us 100 years to honour them all.”
Bamya goes on to highlight the Gazan struggle which has now entered its eighth month.
“2.3 million people who have been in a constant battle with death for the last 8 months. They are victims. They are heroes.”
Brilliant words that would make a building crumble, yet the international order fails to act upon them.
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English Script:
Majed Bamya: We decided to hold a funeral every single day for each Palestinian killed in the last eight months. It would take us 100 years to honor them all. This council adopted only a week ago a resolution on the protection of U.N. and humanitarian personnel. It would take us if we held a funeral a day for these humanitarian personnel over a year to honor them all. There’s barely anything left in Gaza. Israel has destroyed everything, but there is everything left still in Gaza. 2.3 million people who have been in a constant battle with death for the last eight months. They are victims, they are heroes because they refuse to surrender to death. But they are the victims who deserve to be helped as victims, not only admired as heroes. Eight months later, we are yet to tell them that help is on the way. You cannot unhear the screams of a mother who did everything, everything in her power to save her children and failed. Parents who have lost a child, have to carry the others to safety, not having the time to mourn and finding safety nowhere. Orphans taken care of by the next closest relative until none of them is left. Families wandering, the streets traumatized, aching, desperate, coming from nowhere, heading to nowhere. They are in a no life’s land trying to get to tomorrow, where it all starts all over again. There are people starving only a few feet away from aid and yet unable to reach it. Despite several binding orders by the International Court of Justice in the case of genocide brought forward by South Africa. Israel has made sure that famine sets in, obstructing aid and allowing its destruction by its extremists and settlers instead of and instead of halting immediately its offensive on Rafah, as ordered by the world’s highest court, it has bombed people, it had displaced while they were sheltering in tents.
