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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Lauren Aratani

New York: more than 100 arrested after Israel-Hamas war protest blocks traffic

A line of older, Middle Eastern women, one wearing a purple knit cap, hold a white cloth sign with a purple ribbon border and black lettering that says 'No More Deaths' up to their noses, on the other side of a police gate.
A crowd of about 1,000 demonstrators protested in Midtown Manhattan on Friday, similar to these demonstrators in Queens, New York City, on Wednesday. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

New York City police arrested more than 130 anti-war protesters after hundreds of people blocked traffic on Fifth Avenue on Friday night.

A crowd of about 1,000 demonstrators called for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict and marched in the rain from Bryant Park to the Midtown Manhattan office of the New York US senator Kirsten Gillibrand.

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