At least 30 pro-Palestinian Jewish protesters were arrested Monday for blocking all entrances to the White House.
Protesters demanding an end to Gaza “genocide” and an Israeli ceasefire swarmed the complex as President Joe Biden held national security meetings inside.
Biden will visit Israel on Wednesday, it was announced on Monday evening. After meetings in Tel Aviv, he will then travel to Jordan to meet Arab leaders, including King Abdullah, and the presidents of Egypt and Palestine.
IfNotNow, the group that organized the march, posted on
“We are here because we know that a humanitarian catastrophe, mass violence against Gaza will not prevent more violence or heal our pain,” they added in another post.
The Secret Service told DailyMail.com that they had recorded 33 arrests on charges of unlawful entry, and 16 on charges of ‘incommoding’ or obstruction.
At least 30 pro-Palestinian Jewish protesters were arrested Monday for blocking all entrances to the White House.
Protesters demanding an end to Gaza ‘genocide’ and an Israeli ceasefire swarmed the complex as President Joe Biden held national security meetings inside
IfNotNow, the group that organized the march, posted on
The group shared a video of its activists staging a sit-in outside the White House, blocking roads and being arrested.
Condemning the October 7 Hamas attack, they wrote on October 10: ‘Our shock and sadness grow as increasingly gruesome details emerge of the crimes against humanity committed by Hamas against Israelis. We count our own loved ones among the victims. These crimes are indefensible and unconscionable.”
But they also demand that the bombing of Gaza stop.
They sat outside the gates of the White House and demanded that Biden insist that Israel halt its attacks on Gaza.
“Three large groups of Jews and allies have blocked off the main White House exit on 17th Street,” they tweeted.
“We’re not leaving until Biden calls for a ceasefire, and neither should they.”
More than a million people have fled their homes in the run-up to the Gaza Strip expected Israeli invasion which aims to eliminate Hamas’s leadership.
Aid agencies warn that an Israeli ground offensive could precipitate a humanitarian crisis.
Israeli forces, backed by US warships, have positioned themselves along Gaza’s border and embarked on what Israel says would be a broad campaign to dismantle the militant group.
A week of blistering airstrikes has devastated neighborhoods but failed to stop militant rocket fire into Israel.
The war that started on October 7 has become the deadliest of five Gaza wars for both sides, with more than 4,000 people killed.
Gaza’s health ministry said 2,750 Palestinians were killed and 9,700 injured.
Iran’s foreign minister warned on Monday that “preventive action is possible” as Israel moves closer to its impending ground offensive in the Gaza Strip.
Forensic expert marks a body bag of an Israeli killed by Hamas militants at the National Center for Forensic Medicine in Tel Aviv on Monday
Riding a donkey-drawn cart as the family flees with hundreds of other Palestinians with their belongings after the Israeli army’s warning to leave their homes and head south
The photo shows Palestinians waiting at the border with Egypt on Saturday, trying to leave the enclave
Hossein Amirabdollahian’s comments follow a pattern of escalating rhetoric from Iran, whose theocracy provides support for Hamas and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Israel cannot “do whatever it wants in Gaza and then pursue other resistance groups after it is done with Gaza,” he told state television.
“So any preventive action is possible in the coming hours.”
He did not elaborate on what form any action might take.
“If the limited and extremely narrow options available to the United Nations and political actors are not exploited in the coming hours, the opening of new fronts against the Zionist regime is inevitable,” he said.
UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths said the United Nations is in ‘deep discussions’ with the Israelis, Egyptians and others about getting aid through the Rafah crossing – ‘hugely helped’ by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who has been traveling in the United States. region.
Griffiths, who leaves for Cairo on Tuesday “to try to help with the negotiations”, said in an interview with the UN on Monday that he hoped for “good news” soon.
Griffiths said the UN’s “overwhelming priority” is gaining access to Gaza, saying humanitarian rules of war are being violated.
“You can’t ask people to get out of harm’s way without helping them to do so,” Griffiths said.
Israeli airstrikes continue to ravage Gaza, hitting homes sheltering people seeking safer ground and wiping out eighteen members of the same family.
A fireball erupts on Saturday during the Israeli bombardment of the northern Gaza Strip
A photo taken from Sderot shows plumes of smoke rising over buildings during an Israeli attack on the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday, as Israel shells Gaza in preparation for a land invasion
Three families who had fled Gaza City were in a house that was hit early Monday in the southern city of Rafah. Surviving family members said the attack killed a dozen people and left nine buried under the rubble.
A huge crater marked the spot where the building had stood.
In the Nuseirat refugee camp, in the middle of the besieged Gaza Strip, the bodies of 18 members of the Ghabayen family were loaded into a truck.
“This is a whole family,” said Mustafa Ghabayen, a relative.
“Eighteen martyrs and three are still under the rubble.”