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Nearly 300 people were arrested out of thousands of demonstrators who took part in a Jewish-led protest on Wednesday on Capitol Hill to demand a cease-fire in the ongoingJewish Voice for Peace, which organised the efforts, said dozens of rabbis were among the protesters. The activist group is also calling for humanitarian assistance to be allowed to enter the embattled Gaza Strip amid the war.
The public is allowed to enter the Cannon House Office Building, as well as other House and Senate buildings, but demonstrations are prohibited inside, according toWhile the number of those arrested is likely to change as police process all the arrests, a Capitol Police spokesperson told the outlet that “close to 300” demonstrators had been arrested around 6pm local time on Wednesday. An organiser told the outlet that somewhere between 300 and 400 people were demonstrating inside the building.
A spokesperson for the Capitol Police told HuffPost earlier that those arrested “will be ticketed and released.” At that time, roughly 100 people had been arrested.The protests follow more than a week of conflict between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza. On October 7, an attack by Hamas killed more than a thousand people in Israel.
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