About 200 demonstrators marched Friday from the Fifth Ave. entrance to the New York Public Library to the New York Times building on Eighth Ave. in Midtown to protest the resumption of the Gaza war.
“Palestine will be free!” said signs carried by some protesters, video of the event posted online showed.
The protest gathered at the library around 5:30 p.m. and then proceeded on W. 42nd St. toward Eighth Ave. The group arrived outside the Times building at about 6 p.m.
The protest broke up at around 7:20 p.m.
Organizers described the event as an “emergency protest” to call for a permanent ceasefire in the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict as Israeli airstrikes resumed.
Clashes broke out Wednesday between cops and protesters who sought to disrupt the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree lighting ceremony, leading to several arrests.
