(MENAFN) On Saturday, May. 15 protesters gathered in streets in several key U.S. cities, calling for an end to Israeli air raids on Gaza.
In the U.S. capital Washington, D.C., hundreds participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations on Saturday afternoon, walking from the Washington Monument to the U.S. Capitol.
Also on Saturday, thousands of people protested in Los Angeles in support of Palestine. A handful of pro-Israel counterprotesters also got together, and police officers maintained the groups divided, reported local media.
An ABC News report said that a protest that began in a neighborhood in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, which has a huge Arabic-speaking community, carried on through the streets for a number of hours on Saturday afternoon.
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