NEW YORK (VINnews) — NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani marked the third anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre Wednesday by acknowledging the Israelis killed and abducted in the attack, but used much of his statement to accuse Israel of war crimes and blame the United States for supporting them.

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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.

— Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) October 7, 2026

Mamdani said Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 people on Oct. 7, calling the attack “horrific.” But he immediately shifted his focus to Israel’s response, saying the suffering “did not begin nor end that day.”

He accused the Israeli government of carrying out an “ongoing genocide” in Gaza and cited Palestinian casualty figures while alleging that Israel has targeted ambulances, residential buildings and journalists and restricted humanitarian aid.

Mamdani also criticized U.S. policy, saying, “our tax dollars fund these war crimes,” and accused the federal government of complicity through continued arms shipments to Israel.

He concluded by calling for a world in which people can live with “freedom, safety, and dignity,” while arguing that “war crimes” must not be met with impunity.