Amid the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict, New York’s annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade was temporarily halted today when a group of pro-Palestinian protesters jumped the barricades and “held on all the way to Sixth Avenue,” ABC News reported.
ABC reports that the protesters were removed by New York police and arrested.
During the parade, a float member from the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe in Massachusetts also held a Palestinian flag and made several remarks.
A four-day ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas was originally scheduled to take effect on Thursday morning, but Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari has now announced that the ceasefire will take effect on Friday at 07:00 local time. time will take effect.
The most recent and ongoing conflict in the Middle East began when Hamas launched its attack on Israel on October 7 and Israel launched subsequent attacks on Gaza. According to the AP, the war, now in its seventh week, has killed more than 13,300 Palestinians in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
After today’s parade and according to the New York PostAt least 400 protesters gathered in Madison Square Park and marched to Macy’s in nearby Herald Square, chanting “Long live the Intifada” and “Will the American public see you?” Your taxes fund our misery.”
Other Hymns, per The commentsincluding: “From Palestine to the Philippines, stop the American war machine” and “From Palestine to Mexico, all walls must come down.”
Source: Deadline
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