Pro-Palestinian protesters invade the Capitol: More than 100 demonstrators are arrested after demanding Israeli ceasefire by staging a sit-down in a rotunda in the Congress complex

• The demonstration comes a day after a bombing of a hospital in Gaza killed at least 500 Palestinians
• READ MORE: Progressive Democrats rushed to blame ISRAEL for Gaza hospital strike as they call bombing a ‘war crime’ and demand a ceasefire 

Pro-Palestinian protestors are taking over the U.S. Capitol as hundreds demand a ceasefire between Hamas terrorists in Gaza and Israel. 

The demonstration comes a day after a bombing of a hospital in Gaza killed at least 500 Palestinians. 

The protestors, dressed in black shirts that read ‘JEWS SAY CEASEFIRE NOW’  and ‘NOT IN OUR NAME’ took over the large rotunda in the Cannon House Office Building.

The demonstrators held posters with messages like ‘LET GAZA LIVE’ and ‘MOURN THE DEAD, AND FIGHT LIKE HELL FOR THE LIVING.’ 

Capitol Police made 100 arrests as the group got louder and more disruptive with chants and singing. 

They cut off public access to the Capitol complex as swarms of angry Palestinian advocates flooded the Cannon building. 

‘Jews say ceasefire now’ reads shirts on the backs of the protestors

Capitol Police said of the mass arrests: ‘We warned the protestors to stop demonstrating and when they did not comply we began arresting them.’ 

Rep. Randy Weber posted on X a video of a sign he had hanging outside his office that said ‘I stand with Israel’ that had been torn down by protesters. 

Some Democrats have claimed that Israel committed a war crime by intentionally targeting a hospital – a claim the Israeli Defense Force has avidly denied. 

The Defense Department said they believed it was ‘highly improbable’ Israeli forces were behind the explosion that killed hundreds of people at the Gaza hospital – and President Biden suggested the same during a trip to Israel. 

‘I’m not saying they meant to do it…they gotta learn to shoot straight,’ he told reporters. 

The blast threw Biden’s trip to the Middle East into chaos: a scheduled meeting in Jordanian capital Amman with the king of Jordan and the presidents of Egypt and Palestine was canceled in the fallout of the deadly air strike.

Pro-Palestinian protestors are taking over the U.S. Capitol

People demonstrate as they take part in civil disobedience and a protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza

Jonathan Conricus, a spokesman for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), claimed they have conclusive evidence that Israel was not behind the strike – but the evidence has not yet been published. He shared a video of what he said could be the missile strike. 

Progressive Rep. Rashida Tlaib claimed that Israeli leaders have lied before about their actions after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured his government was not behind the bombing of the Palestinian hospital. 

She spoke to the group in a tearful address before they headed into the Capitol.

‘A lot of people are not gonna forget this! It’s not a threat — it isn’t!’ 

‘[We] just continue to watch people think it’s okay to bomb a hospital with children. You know what’s so hard sometimes is watching those videos and the people telling the kids don’t cry,’ Tlaib said as she choked up in front of the crowd. 

A long line of detained protesters wait to board police vans as protesters take part in civil disobedience and a protest calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., October 18

Police detain a protestor from the campaign group ‘Jewish Voice for Peace’ during a protest inside the Cannon Building of the US Capitol

Police detain more protestors

A protestor continues to blow on a shofar horn as she is grabbed and detained by several U.S. Capitol police officers during a civil disobedience action

Rep. Brandon Williams, R-N.Y., holds an Israeli flag over the pro-Palestinian protesters 

People protest outside the Cannon House Office Building 

Meanwhile the Israeli Defense Forces posted a recording they claimed to have intercepted from two Hamas officials. 

‘They are saying it belongs to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad,’ one Hamas official said.

‘It’s from us?’ asked the other official. 

‘It looks like it!’

‘Who says this?’ 

‘They are saying the shrapnel from the missile is local shrapnel and not like Israeli shrapnel,’ said the first official. 

‘But god bless, it couldn’t have found another place to explode?’ 

‘They shot it from the cemetery behind the hospital.’ 

Israel’s foes – Hamas, PIJ, Hezbollah and Iran – all insist the IDF was behind the devastation, with Tehran declaring last night that the ‘time is up’ for the country and Hezbollah calling for ‘a day of rage.’ 

Hamas slammed the Israeli military’s evidence as fake and that ‘its outrageous lies do not deceive anyone’ in comments given this afternoon, hours after a spokesman for Islamic Jihad accused the IDF of ‘trying to cover for the horrifying crime and massacre they committed against civilians.’ 

Officials in Palestine said at least 471 people had been killed in the blast and over 300 wounded, some in critical condition. 

Meanwhile in a last-minute trip to Israel, Biden condemned Hamas terrorists, who massacred 1,300 Israelis in a surprise attack on October 7, as being worse than ISIS. 

‘Hamas have committed atrocities that make ISIS look more rational,’ Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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