Zohran Mamdani: “A Palestinian New Yorker... spent decades saving up to build…”

“And I'll tell you, as someone who's looking to be the mayor of the city to represent this city, my responsibility is to this city. And recently I was speaking with A Palestinian New Yorker... spent decades saving up to build a house in Gaza and how it was destroyed by the Israeli military in just one drop of a bomb. And how his son and his daughter in law live in Gaza today with their grandchildren. And how his son called him the other week and said he gave the phone to his grandkid and the grandkid said, I'm hungry.” (09:05–09:15)

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