About a thousand people, pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel protesters clashed at a demonstration near the Israeli consulate in New York City over the recent escalation of violence in the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem.
The New York City Police Department separated the demonstrators with metal guard rails with officers standing in between and around the area.
Pro-Palestinian protesters confronted pro-Israel protesters by yelling slogans such as "Free Palestine," “Go back to Europe” and “Fight back.”
Pro-Palestinian protesters subsequently blocked the 42nd Street in Manhattan, waved the Palestinian flag and held up signs that read, "No Annexation, No Occupation," "Support Palestinian Resistance," and "With Every Stomp, Every Shout, Freedom For Palestine Without a Doubt."
The largest escalation in recent years at the Gaza border began on Monday evening. During this time, more than 600 rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip at Israel. Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted 200 of them.
Israel also delivered strikes on the Gaza Strip, which, as the Palestinian enclave's Health Ministry spokesman, killed 30 people.
Earlier, chairman of the political bureau of radical Palestinian movement Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, announced the organization's intention to protect the interests of Palestinians in Jerusalem and respond to Israel's actions, thus defining a new balance of forces in the confrontation.
Source -UNI
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