- The demonstration comes a day after a bomb attack on a Gaza hospital that killed at least 500 Palestinians
- READ MORE: Progressive Democrats rushed to blame ISRAEL for Gaza hospital attack, calling bombings a “war crime” and calling for a ceasefire
Pro-Palestinian protesters take over the US Capitol as hundreds call for a ceasefire between Hamas terrorists in Gaza and Israel.
The demonstration comes a day after a bomb attack on a Gaza hospital that killed at least 500 Palestinians.
The protesters, dressed in black shirts that read “JEWS SAY GUN TAX NOW” and “NOT IN OUR NAME,” took over the large rotunda in the Cannon House office building.
Protesters held placards with messages such as “LET GAZA LIVE” and “MOURN THE DEAD AND FIGHT LIKE HELL FOR THE LIVING.”
Capitol Police arrested 100 people as the group became louder and more disruptive with chanting and singing.
“Jews now say ceasefire,” is written on the T-shirts on the backs of the demonstrators
Capitol Police said of the mass arrests: “We warned protesters to stop demonstrating, and when they did not comply, we began making arrests.”
Some Democrats have claimed that Israel committed a war crime by intentionally attacking a hospital – a claim that Israel Defense Forces have strenuously rejected.
President Joe Biden told reporters in Tel Aviv on Wednesday that the Pentagon had provided him with evidence that Israeli forces were not behind an explosion that killed hundreds of people in hospital in Gaza.
The explosion threw Biden’s trip to the Middle East into chaos: A planned meeting with the King of Jordan and the presidents of Egypt and Palestine in the Jordanian capital Amman was canceled due to the fallout from the deadly airstrike.
Pro-Palestinian protesters take over the US Capitol
People demonstrate as they take part in civil disobedience and a ceasefire protest in Gaza
Jonathan Conricus, a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), told CNN they had conclusive evidence that Israel was not behind the attack – but the evidence has not yet been made public. He shared a video of what he said could be the rocket attack.
Progressive Rep. Rashida Tlaib claimed that Israeli leaders have lied about their actions before after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured that his government was not behind the Palestinian hospital bombing.
She gave a tearful speech to the group before making her way to the Capitol.
“A lot of people won’t forget this! It’s not a threat – it isn’t!”