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ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTERS BLOCK TRAFFIC AT THREE NYC BRIDGES, HOLLAND TUNNEL

By Amanda Woods

Published Jan. 8, 2024
Updated Jan. 8, 2024, 11:10 a.m. ET

Dozens of anti-Israel protesters swarmed three bridges and the Holland Tunnel in
Lower Manhattan on Monday morning, creating chaos as they blocked traffic and
prompting more than 130 arrests.

The shouting demonstrators from the “Shut it Down for Palestine” rally marched
through City Hall Park before groups of them descended on the bridges and
tunnel, police said.

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“You’re disrupting traffic, idiots!” a man in a maroon Honda shouted at the
ralliers at one point as they blocked his car at an intersection.

“You can’t do that! It’s against the law,” he yelled at them — as another man
filming the confrontation with his phone shouted, “Hit ’em all! Run ’em over!”

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The driver then got out of his vehicle and shoved three of the protesters,
warning them to stay away from his car as he screamed, “I have a daughter in
Brooklyn! … I have to get home!”

The protesters eventually backed off. 

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Protesters blocking the Brooklyn bridge this morning are arrested. Steven Hirsch

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Group of protestors walking on Brooklyn Bridge during morning rush hour; other
groups block Manhattan Bridge & Holland Tunnel.

The mayhem occurred after 10 a.m., when at least 40 demonstrators were on the
Brooklyn Bridge, 12 on the Manhattan Bridge, 75 on the Williamsburg Bridge
and dozens more within the Holland Tunnel, the NYPD said.

Video posted on X shows a group standing in front of the entrance to the tunnel
holding signs demanding, “Lift the Siege of Gaza, Ceasefire Now,” as well as
“End the Occupation, Free All Palestinian Prisoners, USA Stop Arming Israel.”

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“Free, free Palestine!” the protesters yelled.

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Protesters blocking the Williamsburg Bridge. FNTV
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Palestine protesters blocked the Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan Bridge, Williamsburg
Bridge and Holland Tunnel. FNTV

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Protesters near the Holland Tunnel. FNTV

130 arrests were made at the Holland Tunnel by Port Authority Police and more at
the bases of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan Bridge, according to law
enforcement sources.

Suspects were handcuffed behind their backs with zip ties and corralled en masse
onto an MTA bus near the mouth of the Brooklyn Bridge in Manhattan, photos show.

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The bridge was reopened to traffic at around 10:45 a.m. and there were no signs
of protesters around the entrance to the span or City Hall by 11 a.m.


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