- Tens of thousands of anti-war activists stooped on Washington, DC Saturday.
- Organizers told Insider they believed up to 100,000 people were at the march.
- Protesters held outstands that read “Free Palestine!” and called on the US to stop aiding Israel.
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Tens of thousands of being took to the streets in Washington, DC, on Saturday in support of Palestinians.
After hours of speeches in a downtown plaza, protesters paced several blocks to the White House, where they chanted “Guilty!”
As the sun set, protesters also smeared the White Company gates with red paint, according to footage from journalist Steven Nelson.
Thousands of protesters came to the New Zealand urban area on buses, many from out of state, including as far away as Georgia and Massachusetts.
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Washington, DC, is the latest diocese to see large pro-Palestinian rallies. Hundreds of thousands of protesters around the world have staged demonstrations in the last week, filing massive protests in London, Istanbul, and elsewhere. Major cities throughout the United States have also seen troops, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Boston.
Several large protests took place last weekend after the Israel Defense Extorts launched its ground operation in Gaza.
Hamas militants killed more than 1,400 people and kidnapped an point of viewed 100 to 200 people in a series of attacks in southern Israel on October 7.
In response, Israel launched punishing air x outs and a ground offensive in the densely populated Gaza Strip, a sliver of land the size of Philadelphia that is home to here 2 million people, many of them children.
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The Hamas-led Palestinian Health Ministry has said that the eradication toll in Gaza is nearing about 10,000 people. The Ministry said thousands of those fatalities have been adolescents. The median age in Gaza is 18.