This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.
The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.
Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.
To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity.
@mitchellvii You wish! Days of our politician being in Israeli pockets are coming to an end. Soon our nation will be great again and it’ll be America first! FUCK ISRAEL and fuck any American putting Israel before USA!
@IsraelMFA There are no innocent civilians in Israel. Everyone is IDF, a terrosist organization. The few innocent civilians which they have are all being used as human shields by Israelis!
@PahlaviReza Anyone cheering for their country to be bombed, their brethren to be massacred and a total destruction of their nation is staright up a piece of shit. You have no say in this motherfucker zionist!