- The demonstration comes a day after a bombing of a hospital in Gaza killed at least 500 Palestinians
- READ MORE: Progressive Democrats rushed to blame ISRAEL for Gaza hospital strike as they call bombing a ‘war crime’ and demand a ceasefire
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Pro-Palestinian protestors are taking over the U.S. Capitol as hundreds demand a ceasefire between Hamas terrorists in Gaza and Israel.
The demonstration comes a day after a bombing of a hospital in Gaza killed at least 500 Palestinians.
The protestors, dressed in black shirts that read ‘JEWS SAY CEASEFIRE NOW’ and ‘NOT IN OUR NAME’ took over the large rotunda in the Cannon House Office Building.
The demonstrators held posters with messages like ‘LET GAZA LIVE’ and ‘MOURN THE DEAD, AND FIGHT LIKE HELL FOR THE LIVING.’
Capitol Police made 100 arrests as the group got louder and more disruptive with chants and singing.
They cut off public access to the Capitol complex as swarms of angry Palestinian advocates flooded the Cannon building.
‘Jews say ceasefire now’ reads shirts on the backs of the protestors
Capitol Police said of the mass arrests: ‘We warned the protestors to stop demonstrating and when they did not comply we began arresting them.’
Rep. Randy Weber posted on X a video of a sign he had hanging outside his office that said ‘I stand with Israel’ that had been torn down by protesters.
Some Democrats have claimed that Israel committed a war crime by intentionally targeting a hospital – a claim the Israeli Defense Force has avidly denied.
President Joe Biden told reporters in Tel Aviv Wednesday that the Pentagon showed him evidence Israeli forces were not behind an explosion that killed hundreds of people at the Gaza hospital.
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The explosion threw Biden’s trip to the Middle East into chaos: a scheduled meeting in Jordanian capital Amman with the king of Jordan and the presidents of Egypt and Palestine was canceled in the fallout of the deadly air strike.
Pro-Palestinian protestors are taking over the U.S. Capitol
People demonstrate as they take part in civil disobedience and a protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza
Jonathan Conricus, a spokesman for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), told CNN they have conclusive evidence that Israel was not behind the strike – but the evidence has not yet been published. He shared a video of what he said could be the missile strike.
Progressive Rep. Rashida Tlaib claimed that Israeli leaders have lied before about their actions after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured his government was not behind the bombing of the Palestinian hospital.
She spoke to the group in a tearful address before they headed into the Capitol.
‘A lot of people are not gonna forget this! It’s not a threat — it isn’t!’
‘[We] just continue to watch people think it’s okay to bomb a hospital with children. You know what’s so hard sometimes is watching those videos and the people telling the kids don’t cry,’ Tlaib said as she choked up in front of the crowd.
A long line of detained protesters wait to board police vans as protesters take part in civil disobedience and a protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., October 18
Police detain a protestor from the campaign group ‘Jewish Voice for Peace’ during a protest inside the Cannon Building of the US Capitol
Police detain more protestors
People protest outside the Cannon House Office Building
