Professional-Palestinian protesters blocked visitors on bridges in Boston and San Francisco throughout rush hour Thursday morning to name for a cease-fire in Gaza as Israel continues to focus on Hamas management greater than a month after the militant group’s lethal incursion into Israel.
On the Boston College bridge, the group IfNotNow, which says it represents members of Boston’s Jewish group, chanted “Stop-fire now!” and demanded that Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., assist a right away cease-fire and use her affect to cease the Israeli authorities’s army motion in Gaza.
The protest slowed visitors to a trickle on the bridge, which connects Boston and Cambridge, because the group held indicators that mentioned, “Let Gaza Dwell,” and unfurled a banner throughout the roadway that learn, “Jews say: Ceasefire now.”
“We care about Palestinian lives, we solely need to damage Hamas,” one protester on the bridge informed NBC Boston, whereas one other mentioned, “There can’t be peace for Jews except there may be peace for Palestinians.”
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Protesters in Boston held indicators calling for a cease-fire in Gaza and for Hamas to launch hostages. (WFXT)
In the meantime, Professional-Palestinian protesters additionally shut down the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, the place President Biden was courting world leaders on the Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation summit.
The Arab Useful resource and Organizing Middle deliberate the demonstration, through which protesters had been heard shouting, “Free Palestine” and “We would like justice.” Others chained themselves to the bridge or lay within the street coated with sheets smeared with pretend blood, FOX2 KTVU reported.
Some protesters lay on the street alongside the Bay Bridge coated in sheets with pretend blood. (FOX2 KTVU)
Authorities had closed one lane on the bridge as a preventative measure through the summit, the station reported, citing the California Freeway Patrol.
Professional-Palestinian protesters shut down the Bay Bridge in San Francisco to name for a cease-fire in Gaza. (FOX2 KTVU)
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Israel vowed to wipe out Hamas after the militant group launched its Oct. 7 shock assault, through which not less than 1,200 folks died in Israel and round 240 had been taken captive by militants again to Gaza.
Greater than 11,200 Palestinians have been killed for the reason that battle started, in accordance with the Well being Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza.
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The protest got here as Israeli forces dropped leaflets warning Palestinians to flee elements of southern Gaza, residents mentioned Thursday, signaling a potential enlargement of their offensive.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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