Pro-Palestine protestors outside of Congress emerge as Netanyahu's fiercest critics
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was met with rapturous applause at Congress, but later was criticised by some lawmakers for failing to address post-war plans for Gaza.
Although roughly 70 House and Senate democrats boycotted his speech, his biggest critics emerged on the streets of Washington DC.
Middle East Eye was on the ground outside Capitol Hill and across downtown Washington DC, where at least 1,500 pro-Palestinian and anti-war activists raised their ire against the Israeli war on Gaza as a whole, with their centre of attention being Netanyahu, who they accused of leading a genocide on Palestinians in Gaza.
Loan Tran, an activist with the group, Rising Majority, says they want to make it clear that the government "has to stop enabling this genocide". Tran added that he's confounded that Netanyahu is allowed to address Congress despite such severe opposition to him in the US.
"It’s been really mind-boggling that over the last nine months as students and everyday concerned citizens of the US have taken actions such as these, that folks have been arrested…when the International Court of Justice ruled and said the real criminal, the war criminal, is Benjamin Netanyahu.”