Palestinian envoy to the UN Majed Bamya has warned that Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are facing daily life-or-death decisions in what he described as “Russian roulette with a bullet in almost every chamber,” Anadolu Agency reports.
“More than 2 million Palestinians, half of them children, and for more than 650 days now wake up without knowing if they will make it through the day and go to sleep without knowing if they will wake up in the morning,” Bamya said during an emergency session of the UN Security Council on Gaza.
“Every single day has its share of tragedies,” he said, adding that “we fear the world is growing accustomed to the unbearable, to the unacceptable.”
“In Gaza, all paths lead to death,” Bamya noted, saying that Israel forces Palestinians to choose between death and displacement.
“Israel wants that path to be leaving Gaza. That was the whole plan from day one,” he said.
