Activists sat clapping and singing on the floor in the rotunda of the Cannon House Office Building, holding up large banners that read 'Ceasefire' and 'Let Gaza Live.'
At least a hundred protesters demonstrated on Capitol Hill and occupied part of a House office building on Wednesday, urging lawmakers and the Biden administration to push for a cease-fire in Gaza, which has been under Israeli airstrikes since a deadly Hamas terror attack.
Capitol police said in a statement on X, formerly known as Twitter.The protest was organized by the Jewish Voice for Peace, a Jewish anti-Zionist organization.Before the sit-in, hundreds of people had gathered on the National Mall near the Capitol urging the Biden administration to call for a cease-fire.'Biden really is the only one that has the power to pressure Israel right now and he needs to use that power to save innocent lives,' Hannah Lawrence, 32, who came from Vermont.
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