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Activists from the Jewish Voice for Peace movement were eventually evacuated by the police.
Published on 10/19/2023 07:32
Reading time: 1 min Demonstrators entered the Capitol in Washington (United States), on October 18, 2023, to demand a ceasefire in Gaza. (ALLISON BAILEY / NURPHOTO / AFP)
To the cry of “ceasefire now” et “not in our name”, Around a hundred demonstrators occupied a US Congress building in Washington on Wednesday October 18 to demand elected officials and the Biden administration to push for a ceasefire in Gaza. The demonstration was organized at the call of the Jewish Voice for Peace movement.
Wearing black T-shirts, they sat clapping and singing in the rotunda of the Cannon Building, one of the congressional buildings, and unfurled large banners proclaiming “Let Gaza live.” “Protests are not allowed inside Congressional buildings”wrote on X the Capitol police who arrested several protesters.
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Are we only allowed to call people like this insurrections when they are Donald Trump supporters?
Police are now making… pic.twitter.com/W0rttqIx51
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 18, 2023
“If I might send a message to the president, I would say: ‘Open your eyes, look at what is happening in Gaza. If you want to be able to look in the mirror, you have to stand up and end the genocide.'” for her part declared Rabbi Linda Holtzman, 71, from Philadelphia.
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