19-year-old Yonatan Elazari was a combat soldier in training at a Paratroopers training base. He was visiting his friends in Ofakim when Hamas launched its attack on October 7th 2023. During the early morning, alarms sounded and they rushed to the bunker. Shortly afterward, gunshots were heard, making it evident that a battle was unfolding outside. Yonatan, initially unarmed, decided to go out and confront the terrorists with mere stones in his hands. Once outside, he encountered a severely injured policeman and and was given his Micro-Tavor rifle. He then climbed to the roof of a nearby building and engaged the terrorists below for several hours. Yonatan's body was later found with numerous bullet casings scattered around him after hours of fighting.

في مثل هذا اليوم تم اذلال الجيش الأكثر وحشية في العالم #طوفان_الأقصى

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.

View of Gaza City on October 7 anniversary x.com/i/broadcasts/1jGXgBQPd…

Good morning 🌅

Today, I condemn all acts of violence and hate.

סליחה שזה הולך לאישי אבל אני פשוט מתחנן, תשלחו כל מה שאפשר לקיבוץ בארי, תכניסו טנקים, תירו מהאוויר, תצניחו חיילים, לא יודע. הבית של הדודים שלי עולה באש, הם בממד עם ארבעת הילדים סופרים את הדקות. בבקשה תעשו משהו.

Kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 and ultimately murdered by jihadists.