Protesters stage sit-in outside New York Stock Exchange to spotlight Gaza attacks
A group of protesters staged a sit-in outside the New York Stock Exchange on Monday morning amid continued Israeli attacks in Gaza.
A group of protesters staged a sit-in outside the New York Stock Exchange on Monday morning amid continued Israeli attacks in Gaza.
Approximately 500 individuals representing Jewish Voices for Peace, a Jewish-led pro-Palestinian group, arrived at the exchange at 85 Broad St. as part of an "unscheduled protest" just before the stock market's official 9:30 a.m. opening, according to a New York Police Department spokesperson.
Demonstrators protesting Israel's war against Hamas lock themselves on the fence while they protest and occupy an area outside the New York Stock Exchange on Monday.Yuki Iwamura / APA total of 206 arrests were made, the spokesperson said. An NYSE representative said at least one person had handcuffed himself between an interior and exterior door.
In an email to NBC News ahead of the action, a spokesperson for the protest group said "hundreds" were planning to gather at the exchange to demand that the U.S. government "fund FEMA, not genocide."
"As Gaza is bombed, Wall Street booms," Jewish Voices for Peace said in a post on X. "The stock prices of weapons manufacturers have skyrocketed this year. The U.S. war economy is profiting from genocide."
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