Mamdani: Suffering did not begin, end on October 7, continued throughout Israel's 'Gaza genocide'
Mayor Zohran Mamdani mourned those killed and abducted on October 7 while accusing Israel of genocide, apartheid, and war crimes during the Israel-Hamas War and the Gaza ceasefire.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a statement on Wednesday marking the third anniversary of the October 7 massacre. He emphasized that the suffering did not begin nor end on that day, but rather continued through Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza, where over 74,000 Palestinians have been killed, including 21,000 children.
Even since the ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have lost their lives, intensified by Israeli bombings of ambulances, drone strikes on residential buildings, and the rejection of food aid shipments at border crossings. Mamdani expressed sympathy for New Yorkers grappling with this unbearable grief, while acknowledging that their tax dollars fund these war crimes.
He acknowledged three years since the October 7 massacre and called for an end to occupation and apartheid, where war crimes are met with impunity and federal government complicity. He condemned Hamas's horrific war crimes, with official Israeli figures placing the death toll at over 1,200 Israelis murdered during the massacre.
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