Police arrest pro-Palestine demonstrators in US Senate
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The demonstration was organized by groups such as the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights and Jewish Voice for Peace, which urged the US government to redirect funding to domestic issues.
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Protesters inside the US Senate calling for the US to stop arming the Israelis in their genocide against Gaza ( X / @wearedissenters)
Several hundred activists called on the US to press for a ceasefire in Gazaby briefly demonstrating outside a US Senate office building on Monday before police broke up the rally and arrested dozens.
The demonstration was organized by groups such as the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights and Jewish Voice for Peace, which urged the US government to redirect funding to domestic issues such as affordable housing and childcare rather than further equipping "Israel" with US weaponry to commit ethnic cleansing.
BREAKING: PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTORS AT THE US SENATE BUILDING pic.twitter.com/dYjZULgqMp
— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) December 11, 2023
The health situation in Gaza has reached alarming proportions as the toll of Israeli genocide has climbed to 18,205 martyrs and 49,645 injured since October 7th.
The situation is expected to worsen as a significant number of people remain trapped under debris, while ambulances are barred from reaching the wounded due to depleted fuel reserves.
BREAKING: Protesters call for ceasefire now in Hart Senate Building as police start making mass arrests #FreePalestine #IsraelApartheidState pic.twitter.com/4sOMa4TzSI
— #StopCopCity (@ChuckModi1) December 11, 2023
Protesters yelled "ceasefire now" and sported "invest in life" shirts as they locked arms.
According to the United States Capitol Police, 51 persons were detained as a consequence of the protest.
Sandra Tamari, executive director of the Adalah Justice Project, one of the groups involved in the protest expressed that "Funding more death and destruction of human life...makes no one secure, and instead fuels hatred and continued war," calling for the Senate to "heed our urgent demand to stop funding militarism and instead invest in life."
Happening now in Hart Senate office building: protestors calling for "ceasefire now" have strewn "blood money" all over the floor and are lying on the ground.
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) December 11, 2023
I'm told that USCP is zip tying them one by one. pic.twitter.com/3VaRek7Oo3
On Sunday tens of thousands of people gathered in London for another weekend of protests, demanding "Israel" end its attack on Gaza and slamming their government for failing to support a truce in the strip.
Protesters marched from London's Bank Junction to Parliament Square on Saturday, holding posters that read "Ceasefire now," "End genocide," and the well-known Palestinian cry, "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free."
Many criticized the UK for abstaining from a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, which the US rejected.
Thousands gathered in London for Gaza.#Gaza #GazaHolocaust pic.twitter.com/4Vi7kGc5y4
— The International Magazine (@TheIntlMagz) December 10, 2023
Last week, Pro-Palestine members of the Jewish community in the US demonstrated outside the offices of Democratic Party Congressman Dwight Evans in Philadelphia, demanding that he support a ceasefire in Gaza.
The IfNotNow group posted on X: "We’ve been making calls and visiting his office for two months. He still hasn’t taken action. We’re not leaving until he does."
The movement comprises American Jews who are demanding the US end its backing of the Israeli apartheid regime.
RIGHT NOW: #JewsForCeasefire are sitting in at @RepDwightEvans' office in Philadelphia and demanding he support an immediate, lasting ceasefire.
— IfNotNow🔥🕎 (@IfNotNowOrg) December 8, 2023
We've been making calls and visiting his office for two months. He still hasn't taken action.
We're not leaving until he does. pic.twitter.com/aalz8YBQlp
