[News] Pro-Palestine rally shuts down Manhattan Bridge calling for ceasefire

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Pro-Palestine rally shuts down Manhattan Bridge calling for ceasefire
Al Mayadeen English - November 26, 2023
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Pro-Palestine demonstrators have vowed not to leave the bridge on the
busiest travel day of the year until the US President demands a permanent
ceasefire in Gaza.

   - Pro-Palestine demonstrators at the Manhattan Bridge on November 26.
   2023 (Social media)

Thousands are blocking the Manhattan Bridge in New York, United States, on
the busiest travel day of the year, refusing to leave until US President
Joe Biden calls for a lasting ceasefire in Gaza.

The bridge allows the passage of roughly 450,000 people per day.

According to Jewish Voice for Peace, demonstrators refuse to leave "until
the US stops funding and fueling a genocide."

Protesters can be heard chanting in the videos: "President Biden pick a
side, ceasefire not Genocide."

They are also demanding an end to all US military aid to "Israel"
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/biden-moves-to-lift-all-restrictions-on-israeli-access-to-us>,
chanting, "US out of the Middle East, end the war on Gaza!”

According to Jewish Voice For Peace, the protesters include hundreds of
rabbis and Jews.

Two days ago, Pro-Palestine groups throughout the United States organized Black
Friday protests,
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/black-friday--a-platform-to-defund-genocide>
demanding a lasting ceasefire in Gaza.

As hundreds of millions of Americans
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/bds-victory:-us-court-blocks-enforcing-texas-anti-bds-law>
headed to retailers on Friday, protesters planned to gather at commercial
centers, boycott large corporate stores, and participate in virtual
demonstrations.

Organizations such as Shut It Down 4 Palestine, Calling Up Justice, and the
ANSWER Coalition are orchestrating boycotts, rallies, and other protests to
convey a message to the Biden administration.

Not only is "Israel" violating the terms of the current truce
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/one-hour-after-taking-effect--israeli-forces-violate-tempora>,
but Netanyahu recently informed Biden that "Israel" will resume operations
in Gaza with full force after the truce ends.

Hamas expressed its readiness to extend the existing truce
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/hamas-says-looking-into-possibility-of-extending-truce-agree>
to increase the number of liberated Palestinian prisoners from Israeli
jails.

This comes after *AFP* quoted a Hamas source as saying that the Resistance
movement is prepared to extend the existing truce agreement for another two
to four days.

According to David Ignatius in *The Washington Post*, after "Israel" paused
its war on Gaza, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) are faced with a
"controversial
dilemma
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/hamas-says-looking-into-possibility-of-extending-truce-agree>"
of considering how exactly they will resume their bombardment of the strip
in their alleged effort to "eradicate" Hamas.

One Israeli senior official did not back down from the IOF's intention to
destroy Hamas, in turn destroying Gaza and yet killing thousands more
Palestinians, despite the mounting international pressure for a permanent
ceasefire.
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