Jewish demonstrators on Capitol Hill call for Gaza ceasefire as Netanyahu visits D.C.

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Pro-Palestinian Jewish demonstrators on Tuesday (July 23) staged a protest inside Capitol Hill's cannon building rotunda, ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address at joint meeting of Congress.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Pro-Palestinian Jewish demonstrators on Tuesday staged a protest inside Capitol Hill's Cannon

00:08Building Rotunda ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address at a joint meeting

00:14of Congress.

00:16Around 230 anonymous Capitol Hill staffers from 122 offices signed a letter made public

00:22last week urging their bosses to either protest or boycott the July 24 address to Congress

00:28by Netanyahu, against whom the International Criminal Court Prosecutor's Office recently

00:33requested an arrest warrant over war crimes.

00:36And we're here to say that we don't want our tax dollars funding genocide.

00:43We are willing to put our bodies on the line to say that our Jewish values and our values

00:48as people mean that we cannot be funding this.

00:51I'm a Jewish American.

01:00My grandparents survived the Holocaust.

01:03And growing up, I was always told that we should never let anything like the Holocaust

01:07happen again.

01:08That's why I'm here today protesting the genocide of the Palestinian people and calling on our

01:14government to enact an arms embargo on Israel and send no more weapons to the Israeli military.

01:20The U.S. has seen months of protests from pro-Palestinian groups and college students

01:25over U.S. support for Israel amid its war in Gaza that has killed nearly 39,000 Palestinians

01:32while displacing nearly all its 2.3 million population and causing a hunger crisis.

01:38Biden has recently supported talks for a ceasefire but has continued military support for Israel.

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