Hundreds of protesters led by far-left Jewish activists calling for a ceasefire in Gaza stage a sit-in inside of the federal building in Oakland, California, leading to multiple arrests.
People wear T-shirts reading “Jews Say Cease-fire Now” and carried banners that read “Not in Our Name” and “Let Gaza Live” in the rotunda of the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building in the evening.
Jewish Voice for Peace, one of the protest organizers, posts online that dozens of people were taken into custody by 9 p.m.
Protesters are escorted outside of the building by US Department of Homeland Security police.
“There is no other choice,” Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb of Berkeley tells KNTV-TV when explaining why she is at the sit-in. “How many people do we have to kill before we arrive at a ceasefire?”
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