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Mayor Khan Visits Gaza Festival Survivors, Calls Attack Genocide

7/11/2026

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Mayor Sadiq Khan toured the Nova Exhibition to meet survivors of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on a Gaza-border music festival.
Khan said survivor Sean Burns was inspiring and that co-founder Ofir Amir wants the victims remembered as humans.
He likened the massacre to the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing, called Israel’s Gaza campaign genocide and expressed solidarity with London Jews after antisemitic attacks.

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Mayor Sadiq Khan toured the Nova Exhibition to meet survivors of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on a Gaza-border music festival.
Khan said survivor Sean Burns was inspiring and that co-founder Ofir Amir wants the victims remembered as humans.
He likened the massacre to the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing, called Israel’s Gaza campaign genocide and expressed solidarity with London Jews after antisemitic attacks.