As President Joe Biden visited Israel to show solidarity with the war-hit nation, US’ Capitol Hill witnessed fierce protests. Hundreds of demonstrators swarmed into the Cannon Rotunda on Capitol Hill ...
Jewish activists arrested at US Congress anti-Israel protest amid Gaza war
Demonstrators from anti-war group Jewish Voice for Peace rallied against ‘Israel’s ongoing oppression of Palestinians’.
Some 500 people have been arrested during a sit-in at the United States Congress in Washington, DC, where they protested against “Israel’s ongoing oppression of Palestinians”, according to Jewish Voice for Peace, the group that organized the demonstration. The protesters, many wearing shirts emblazoned with the words “Not in our name”, were surrounded by police on Wednesday as they sat on the floor of the lobby of the congressional building, unfurling a large banner that said “ceasefire” as the death toll from Israel’s bombardment of the besieged Gaza Strip rises.
About 10,000 people also marched for the cause in the streets of the US capital, said Jewish Voice for Peace.
“We shut down Congress to draw mass attention to the US complicity in Israel’s ongoing oppression of Palestinians,” the progressive Jewish organisation wrote on X.US police said they had cleared the building of protesters by Wednesday evening and were processing arrests.
Israel has imposed a “total siege” on the Gaza Strip, blocking access to food, water, electricity and medical supplies for its 2.3 million residents after Hamas, the group running the enclave, launched an attack into southern Israel on October 7. Israeli authorities say at least 1,400 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in the attack and 199 others were taken captive. . .
A large group of anti-Israel protesters stormed the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, calling for a ceasefire in Gaza as the Israel-Hamas war continues to rage. President Joe Biden was in Israel at the time of ...
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