A flood of Gaza supporters blocked the Manhattan Bridge.
Activists supporting the Gaza ceasefire gathered on the Manhattan Bridge, blocking traffic for several hours and chanting the slogan of freedom for Gaza.
New York peace activists, who are calling for a permanent ceasefire during the Gaza war to support the Palestinian people, took their most dramatic action since the beginning of the Gaza war and closed the Manhattan Bridge in New York for three hours with their massive gathering.
According to “The Guardian”, the organizers of this anti-Zionist rally chanted in support of Palestine and shouted: Let Gaza live. Protesters chanted messages with the content of a request for the establishment of a permanent ceasefire in the occupied Palestinian territories and the Gaza Strip in the form of slogans, and as a sign of protest against the policies of the Biden administration towards the Zionist regime, any traffic on the Manhattan Bridge towards Brooklyn was completely blocked for hours. blocked
The importance of this demonstration is that it was held on one of the busiest days of the year in America under the influence of people returning from the Thanksgiving holiday, and the number of protesters was said to be more than 1,500.
“We know that as long as the US government continues to fund Israel and fuel genocidal attacks against Palestinians in Gaza, nothing will go back to normal,” Jay Saper, the leader of the Jewish Voice for Peace group, told the Guardian.
In explaining the rallies and marches, he noted that the widespread protest actions against the positions of Tel Aviv and the United States provided the basis for intensifying international anger to stop the bombings and attacks of this regime against the people of Gaza.
Jay Saper considered even the re-extension of the temporary ceasefire in Gaza for two more days as a sign of the effectiveness of mass protests in the cities of the United States of America.
The importance of the demonstrations formed on the Manhattan Bridge was due to the fact that Jews supporting Palestine and American and Palestinian Muslims chanted together for the liberation of Gaza. According to Saper, their civil protests have made the US government sensitive to polls in which the majority of Americans want a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
According to him, their protest actions make it impossible for the politicians of this country to continue supporting the actions of the Zionist regime, unless they want to resist the growing pressure of the people to establish a ceasefire.
Protesters in this gathering stated that they would continue their protest process until all Palestinians are freed and a ceasefire is established in Gaza.