New York City protestors march to end Israeli occupation

By Azad Essa

Several hundred people marched through the streets of Astoria, Queens, in New York City, demanding a ceasefire and an end to the US complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

The protesters were accompanied by a large contingent of police officers who arrived before the protests and surveilled their every move.

"The ceasefire needs to happen now. Palestine deserves to be free," Jasmin Jackson, a protestor from New York City, told Middle East Eye.

"We can't keep living in a world where we have no humanity. It's time we do something about it. It's time we show the world it's time for Palestine to be free from the river to the sea. No two state. They deserve their land."