Pro-Palestinian demonstrators shut down some of the US’s biggest airports, major highways and the Golden Gate and Brooklyn bridges, causing major traffic jams and disruption across the nation.
Traffic in the San Francisco Bay Area was snarled for hours as demonstrators shut down all vehicle, pedestrian and bike traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge and chained themselves to 55-gallon drums filled with cement across Interstate 880 in Oakland.
Anti-war protesters have demonstrated in Chicago near daily since Hamas’ Oct 7 attack on southern Israel that killed around 1,200 people. Israeli warplanes and ground troops have since conducted a scorched-earth campaign on the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli offensive has killed more than 33,700 Palestinians, according to the Gaza health ministry. The ministry does not differentiate between civilians and combatants in its count but says women and children make up two-thirds of the dead.
Near Seattle, the Washington State Department of Transportation said
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