A group of protesters staged a sit-in outside the New York Stock Exchange on Monday morning amid Israel’s assault on Gaza.
According to the New Yorker, people representing Jewish Voice, a Jewish-led pro-Palestinian group, stormed Broad Street as part of an “unscheduled protest” just before 9:30 a.m., the stock market’s opening time. I arrived at the exchange at number 85. Metropolitan Police Department spokesperson.
A spokesperson said a number of arrests had been made, but exact figures were not immediately available. A New York Stock Exchange official said at least one person was handcuffed between an interior door and an exterior door.
Ahead of the action, a spokesperson for the protest group said in an email to NBC News that “hundreds” of people will gather at the exchange to demand that the U.S. government “fund FEMA, not genocide.” said.
“While Gaza is being bombed, Wall Street is booming,” Jewish Voices for Peace said in a post on The war economy profits from genocide.”
The Israeli conflict last week marked the first anniversary of the deadly October 7 attack by Hamas militants.
The resumption of Israeli military operations in northern Gaza led to a siege of refugee camps and hospitals in the area over the weekend, leaving more than 200 people dead.
Early Monday morning, a fire broke out in a camp housing displaced people following an Israeli military attack on the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza.
The Associated Press reported on Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering a plan to blockade northern Gaza in order to “starve” Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, who are unwilling to leave their homes. , or hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who are unable to leave their homes.
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Kyla Guilfoil, Brandon Gomez, CNBC, Max Butterworth, Mithil Aggarwal, and Brittany Kubicko contributed.
