Pro-Palestinian Activists Clash with Police at Brooklyn Museum Protest
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Pro-Palestinian activists stormed the Brooklyn Museum in New York on Friday, clashing with police as they protested against Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza, which is nearing its ninth month.
Protesters broke into the Brooklyn Museum, as they unfurled large banners and chanted slogans inside the lobby.
One banner hung atop the facade read "Free Palestine, divest from genocide," while another protester held a sign saying "Save the children of Rafah," referencing the southern Gazan city currently besieged by the Israeli army.
A group of activists scuffled with police outside the museum before officers entered the lobby and made arrests.
The US has seen a wave of pro-Palestinian protests since a brutal Israeli war broke out in Gaza on October 7.
Activists have heckled politicians at public events and set up encampments on college campuses across the country.
In many cases, police dismantled the camps and forcibly removed protesters who refused to leave.
On Friday, US President Joe Biden says that Israel has offered a "roadmap" to end its nearly eight-month war genocidal war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Biden announced in a speech from the White House on Friday that Israel's three-stage offer would begin with a six-week phase that would see Israeli forces withdraw from all populated areas of Gaza.
The Israeli war has resulted in over 36,000 deaths over the past eight months.
Between Wednesday and Friday afternoon, Israeli forces killed 113 Palestinians and injured 637 in the Gaza Strip, according to the latest UN situation report.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported that amid Israel’s continued attacks from air, land, and sea, only 14 out of Gaza's original 36 hospitals remain partially functional, facing critical shortages.
Israel’s internationally condemned ground invasion of Rafah has forced another humanitarian medical organization to leave the city as violence and military operations escalate as Doctors Without Borders (MSF) closed a primary care center in Rafah's al-Mawasi area on Thursday, the OCHA report stated.
