Hundreds of protesters descended on the Yemen Mission in New York on Friday night to denounce the US military attack on Houthi rebels in response to militant attacks on shipping ships in the Red Sea.
Protesters in the crowd attacked a couple carrying an Israeli flag during the “Hands Off Yemen” demonstration in front of the United Nations mission at East 51st Street and 1st Avenue in Midtown.
The couple was trying to make their way through the crowd with their dog when the man was pushed and protesters snatched the Israeli flag from their hands and tried to set it on fire.
“Long live Hamas, you piece of sh*t!” a man waving a “Free Palestine” flag shouted at the couple, who were separated from the rest of the crowd.
The local man and woman, who did not want to be identified, told The Post they were heading to the dog park when they witnessed a swarm of protesters blocking their path.
The man said he ran back to his apartment and grabbed his Israeli flag before trying to push his way through the crowd, and was pushed.
Pro-Palestinian protesters gather in front of the United Nations building. James Keivom
“Next step, I promise you, next time you will support ISIS,” the outraged man, who was born in Israel, said of the protesters. “Because ISIS hates America, so ISIS is good. “It is beyond crazy what is happening here.”
Other chants heard among the crowd included: “From the river to the sea, Yemen will be free!” and “Gaza called, Yemen answered. All Israeli ships are canceled” before they began to march.
Some held signs that read “Hands off Yemen” and “Fuck Biden,” while others shouted “Joe the genocide has to end.”
Protesters waved Yemeni and Palestinian flags during the demonstration. James Keivom
At one point, a man waving an Israeli flag approached protesters and began yelling at them.
“They are pro-Palestinian and they never went to Palestine!” he yelled at the protesters and fought them off before they surrounded him.
Outside the Horny Ram pub on Second Avenue, a man told protesters: “Go back to Palestine.”
“We want!” one of them responded.
Several protesters were seen scraping “Support Israel” stickers from light poles as they marched. Others were seen tearing down posters of kidnapped Israelis.
A protester holds a watermelon, which has become a symbol of Palestine. James Keivom
“Yes! Screw Israel!” one of them cheered as they watched.
Outside the United Nations, Nerdeen Kiswani, founder of the pro-Palestinian organization Within Our Lifetime, stated: “The Yemeni people and the Palestinian people are the only free people because we resist by any means necessary.”
“We have no faith in their courts, their institutions, their governments. The United States, the United Kingdom, all the puppet Arab Zionist normalizing regimes… We only have faith in the resistance,” he said.
“As long as there is resistance in Palestine and Yemen, as long as there is a blockade in Yemen and Gaza, we will rise up to resist it,” Kiswani said.
The protests were in response to the US military attack on Houthi rebels and the ongoing war in Gaza. James Keivom
It was not immediately clear if any arrests were made, according to police.
The United States and the United Kingdom led strikes against about 30 Houthi targets in Yemen on Thursday, days after the Iran-backed rebels carried out their “largest attack” to date on transport ships in the Red Sea, the president announced. Biden.
The Houthis, who control most of the impoverished country, have been attacking and hijacking cargo ships passing through the critical Red Sea shipping corridor in recent weeks in support of Hamas since the outbreak of the militant groups’ war with Israel. .
The rebels have attacked 27 ships to date.
Houthi leaders said U.S. strikes have killed five people, prompting a large anti-U.S. demonstration in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa. The United States carried out additional, smaller strikes in Yemen on Friday night, officials told CNN.
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