WASHINGTON, DC — In protest of Benjamin Netanyahu’s handle to the US Congress at the moment, Wednesday, July 24, 1000’s of activists flooded the streets in large rallies in opposition to the Israeli chief’s ongoing assaults on Gaza. Demonstrators calling for Netanyahu’s arrest and the top of US help to Israel have been capable of deliver components of town to a halt regardless of heavy police presence and tons of detained.
Starting at Pennsylvania Avenue and third Road, outdoors the Nationwide Gallery of Artwork, activists paraded larger-than-life puppets of a bloody-handed Netanyahu and, much less ceaselessly, President Joe Biden. Because the prime minister started his speech, protesters headed towards Congress, abandoning effigies of coffins with Palestinian flags alongside Massachusetts Avenue. A theatrical staging by the native activist group Code Pink invited folks to “arrest” an actor carrying a Netanyahu masks and dressed like a cartoon inmate, and a few demonstrators burned effigies and images of the politician.
Inventive expression met the anger and frustration felt in Capitol Hill at the moment because the dying toll in Gaza tops 39,000 and Israel continues its assault on the Khan Younis space 9 months after Hamas’s October 7 assault. See pictures of essentially the most inventive interventions throughout the march beneath.
