About 200 Palestinian protesters arrested outside NY stock exchange

About 200 demonstrators protesting Israel's war in Gaza were arrested in a sit-in outside the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, police said.

The protesters chanted Let Gaza live!" and Up up with liberation, down down with occupation!" in front of the stock exchange's landmark building in lower Manhattan.

The reason we're here is to demand that the US government stop sending bombs to Israel and stop profiting off of Israel's genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, said Beth Miller, political director of Jewish Voice for Peace, the group that organised the demonstration. Because what's been happening for the last year is that Israel is using US bombs to massacre communities in Gaza while simultaneously weapons manufacturers on Wall Street are seeing their stock prices skyrocket.

A handful of counterprotesters waved Israeli flags and tried to shout down the pro-Palestinian chants.

None of the pro-Palestinian protesters got inside the exchange, but at least 200 made it inside a securit