Majed Bamya, the Palestinian Deputy Permanent Observer to the UN, calls for the immediate provision of humanitarian aid in Gaza, where thousands of Palestinians, including children and women, have been killed in the recent bombings. He emphasizes the urgent need for fuel, food, and water in hospitals and shelters to prevent further loss of life.
SARAH FERGUSON: Now phone and internet connections have been restored after a near-total blackout, what are you hearing from people in Gaza ?
SARAH FERGUSON: Let me ask you about the aid. Do you understand Israel's position that supplying fuel into Gaza could be potentially supplying fuel to Hamas to use on their generators in the tunnel system? SARAH FERGUSON: On that UN resolution, do you understand why 45 countries, including Australia, abstained from voting on the ceasefire, and they did so because the resolution didn't specifically recognise Hamas as the perpetrator of the October 7 attack?
MAJED BAMYA: Those who know the UN, know that when you decide to go for a humanitarian resolution, not only on Palestine, we are not the exception here, you decide to stick to humanitarian issues because if we had inserted a condemnation of what Israel was doing, some other countries would have had a problem to condemn Israel.
MAJED BAMYA: You know, I've been asked that by the Israeli representatives in the UN repeatedly and I've told them, I don't ask them to condemn, and I don't ask them to mourn the Palestinians killed, I ask them to stop killing them. We need peace, we need an end of occupation, we need to be able to live side-by-side, everybody deserves, all families deserve the right to be reunited in life and not to have to suffer and not to have to bury their loved ones and not to have to live in concern and frustration and resentment towards each other.
Those who are so biased and so blinded that they believe they could condemn one killing of civilians and not the other, there is something there, they should test their conscience. We are clear on our conscience that we are advocating for the rule of law for everyone, no exceptionalism for Israel, no exception for Palestine.
I mean all the narrative and I think part of it is also that the person in charge, his political survival depends on this war staying and continuing and I think the first thing is to get rid of Netanyahu who is bad for the Palestinians, certainly, but who is also bad for Israel. SARAH FERGUSON: Hamas has been telling people to stay, telling civilians to stay in northern Gaza. We also understand they use civilians as human shields. Do you condemn the use of civilians as a means of war?
SARAH FERGUSON: And there has been a suggestion mooted of building a refugee camp in the south near Har Nablus, would that make it acceptable for Palestinian civilians to move from the north? MAJED BAMYA: What would you say if I told you in the last five wars, because we have experience, including schools targeted by Israel, UN experts went there and demonstrated that Israel targeted the schools even though there was no infrastructure and no presence for Hamas there?
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