Pro-Palestinian protests were also reported in Philadelphia. Chicago, Miami and San Antonio. Demonstrators' targets ranged from major highways such as Interstate 5 in Eugene, Oregon, to rural roads leading to an aircraft engine manufacturing company in Middletown, Connecticut.
Protests that began in the morning in the Bay Area, Chicago, Philadelphia, Miami, San Antonio, Eugene and Middletown had dissipated as of Monday evening, but other protests continued. Around 3 p.m. local time, pro-Palestinian demonstrators began blocking the road to Washington's Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. according to Airport X account.
Police made arrests at some protests, but no major incidents of violence were reported in those cities as of Monday night.
Since the outbreak of the Israel-Gaza war, protesters have intermittently jammed traffic, closed roads, disrupted daily life and disrupted events in major U.S. cities, but many in the country did not do so on Monday. Few people affected migration in the area simultaneously or sequentially. Activists on social media called the demonstration a coordinated day of economic protests against the Israel-Gaza war.
The war began shortly after Hamas militants attacked Israel on October 7, killing about 1,200 people and taking hostages, according to Israeli authorities. At least 33,797 people have been killed and 76,465 injured in Gaza since the war began, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants, but the majority of the dead. It states that they are women and children.
This is a developing story and will be updated.