Thousands of people assembled outside the White House on Saturday afternoon to protest the Biden Administration’s handling of the war in Gaza.
Pro-Palestinian protestors stretched a reportedly 2-mile long banner, dubbed the “People’s Red Line,” outside the White House on Saturday, as a part of a protest against the Biden Administration’s response to the
The protest, which brought out a reported 75,000 people, encircled the White House, according to the ANSWER coalition, one of the protest’s organizers. The banner, which lists every Palestinian killed since Oct. 7, is held by thousands of protestors, some of whom traveled for 16 hours by bus to D.C. to attend the protest.It comes the same day Israel conducted a deadly raid in the Al Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza and rescued four Israeli hostages, according to
Along with the ANSWER Coalition, the Council on American Islamic Relations, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, as well as the anti-war group Code Pink, helped organize the protest.wrote on its website promoting the protest . “We demand an immediate ceasefire, an immediate end to the siege on Gaza, the freedom of all Palestinian prisoners, and an end to the occupation of Palestine.”
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