Guests arriving to White House correspondents’ dinner greeted by anti-Israel protest

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators rallying against Israel over its war with Hamas in Gaza outside the annual White House correspondents’ dinner in Washington, as US President Joe Biden is due to attend the event.

“Shame on you!” protesters draped in keffiyehs shout, running after men in tuxedos and suits and women in long dresses who are holding clutch purses, as guests and other participants hurried inside.

Chants claim US journalists are undercovering the war and misrepresenting it. “Western media we see you, and all the horrors that you hide,” crowds chanted at one point.

Other protesters lay sprawled motionless on the pavement, next to mock-ups of flak vests with “press” insignia.

Protesters cry “Free, free Palestine.” They cheer when at one point someone inside the Washington Hilton — where the dinner has been held for decades — unfurls a Palestinian flag from a top-floor hotel window.