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.
Related Off-site Links:
NYC Mayor Mamdani’s Statement Marking 3 Years Since October 7 Attacks Calls Out Israeli Government’s "Ongoing Genocide" – Jesse Zanger, Ali Bauman (CBS News, October 7, 2026).
Israeli-American Council Criticizes NYC Mayor Mamdani’s October 7 Statement – Amanda Castro (Newsweek, October 7, 2026).
Zohran Mamdani’s October 7th Anniversary Statement Causes Unwarranted Controversy – David Doel (The Rational National, October 7, 2026).
October 7: The World Must Stop Starting the Story in the Middle – Mohammed Altaj (Common Dreams, October 7, 2026).
The Problem With Israel Goes Much Deeper Than “Netanyahu’s Extremist Government” – Eric Ross (Common Dreams, October 7, 2026).
Gaza Genocide “Not Over,” Says U.N. Expert as Israel’s Onslaught Enters Fourth Year – Brett Wilkins (Common Dreams, October 7, 2026).
Israeli Activist Maoz Inon Lost His Parents on October 7, Decries Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza – Democracy Now! (October 7, 2026).
After October 7, I Learned That Movements Need Grief Spaces – Alison Avigayil Ramer (Waging Nonviolence, October 6, 2026).
See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• “Nothing About Today is ‘Unprovoked’” (2023)
• Phyllis Bennis: “If We Are Serious About Ending This Spiraling Violence, We Need to Look at Root Causes”
• A Year of War Against Children (2024)
• Anti-Genocide Presidential Candidate Jill Stein Reflects on the First Anniversary of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
• “This Is a Tragic, Heartbreaking Moment in the History of Humanity”
• Why What’s Happening in Palestine – and Our Response to It – Is So Important
• Two Years of “Indescribable Horror” (2025)
• No Justice, No Peace
• The Architecture of Settler Colonialism
• Do Nation States Have the “Right” to Exist?
• Chris Hedges: “The Genocide in Gaza Is the Beginning. Welcome to the New World Order”
• Jonny Rashid: Quote of the Day – August 10, 2026
• Genevieve Fraser: Quote of the Day – August 26, 2026
Image: Yuki Iwamura / Associated Press.
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