Majed Bamya

Majed Bamya   (diplomat)
Alma mater	University Rene Descartes, University Pantheon Sorbonne
Member of	Munich Security Conference/Young Leaders
Ambassador,  Deputy Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the UN In office January 2023 - Present Employer Mission of the State of Palestine to the UN  Ambassador - Political Coordinator/Legal Adviser In office January 2020 - October 2023 Employer Mission of the State of Palestine to the UN  First Counsellor In office August 2016 - January 2020 Employer Mission of the State of Palestine to the UN

Majed Bamya is Deputy Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations in New York.

Genocide Convention

On 29 December 2023, Majed Bamya posted on X:

South Africa institutes proceedings against the State of Israel before the International Court of Justice under the Genocide Convention and requests provisional measures.

South Africa's 84-page Application instituting Genocide Convention proceedings against Israel

UN speech

On 30 December 2023, Ambassador Majed Bamya spoke at the UN:

"75 years have come and gone, and there is a nation still deprived of its land and of its most fundamental rights. Still occupied, oppressed, killed.

"Our people have outlasted the massacres before and will outlast them again, but those killed will not be brought back to life, those scarred will never truly heal. The impact of the Israeli massacres in Gaza will be felt for decades to come, for the Palestinian people who bear the wounds in their flesh, but also in our region and across the world. And if hope is not restored and freedom does not prevail, no one can predict the next chapter of this tragedy but everyone knows it will be worst.

"As the world welcomes a new year, the massacres in Palestine continue, the injustice continues, the suffering continues. How many Palestinian generations will have to suffer before finally being able to live in freedom and dignity and peace in our ancestral land?

"We want to stop seeing our Nakba grow, and finally be able to see our children grow.

Stay

We want to stop seeing our Nakba grow, and finally be able to see our children grow.

On 31 December 2023, Majed Bamya posted the text of his poem Stay on humanising the impact of losing a child, described as "heartbreaking and beautiful in equal measure":

Stay

Long enough for us to rewrite the end

Long enough for the arc of the moral universe to bend

Till I find the chemical equation

That transforms a scream into a smile

To build for you within my arms an isle

Stay

Give me one more day

To etch deeper into my memory your eyes

Elsewhere they say time flies

Here we have no time at all

Not even to delay the fall

Stay

God's embrace can wait

Why such a rush, oh fate

Please leave him behind

At least to say goodbye

Why can't you change your mind

Leave some angels here away from the sky

I need him by my side

To remind my heart to beat

To reverse this mighty tide

Can't another fill his seat?

And if there are no other souls to claim

And you insist that we should part

And if one has to join your realm

Then let me stop my own heart

Let him live, let him grow

To learn life is not all pain and sorrow

To learn words not wounds

To discover love beyond duty

To write poems inspired by moons

And to surrender...but only to beauty

Let him stay to spell his name

And find his way

Please stay

Tomorrow is another day

The nightmare will eventually end

I will survive if your life is spared

Everything else I can mend

Please stay, I lied, I am scared

I held you close and told you I am here

That you have nothing to fear

But now I know

You are my courage, with you I am brave

And with you gone, there is no one left to save.

UNSCR 2728/24

On 27 March 2024, Majed Bamya posted on X:

"Binding or not binding, that is the question…

"Well it is not a question at all, the answer is obvious. United Nations Security Council Resolution 2728 (2024) is binding and must be implemented.

"Listen to what UN Security Council members said on the matter."

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