The Deputy Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations gave an emotional request at the UN General Assembly.
Majid Bamya asked delegates: “Do you know what it is like to have to stand here and explain why your people deserve to be saved when they are being slaughtered and starved to death?
Do you know how it feels when your people are being slaughtered, when they are being starved to death, when you have to stand here and explain why your people deserve to be saved, and when you have to sit in the same hall with people who call your people 'animals'?”
Majid Bamya asked delegates: “Do you know what it is like to have to stand here and explain why your people deserve to be saved when they are being slaughtered and starved to death?
Do you know how it feels when your people are being slaughtered, when they are being starved to death, when you have to stand here and explain why your people deserve to be saved, and when you have to sit in the same hall with people who call your people 'animals'?”
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00:00Do you know how it feels to stand here while your people are being slaughtered,
00:05starved to death, to explain why your people are worthy of being saved, to
00:13explain that your civilians are not less civilians, that they're entitled to
00:18protection, that your children are children, should be treated as children,
00:25should be saved, whilst thousands of them are being killed, maimed, amputated,
00:32orphaned, starved, detained, abused? To sit here in the same hole as those who
00:44have called your people human animals?