Hundreds arrested outside New York senator's house in protest demanding ceasefire

Thousands of Jewish New Yorkers protested outside Senator Chuck Schumer’s home in Brooklyn on Friday evening, demanding the lawmaker take action for an immediate ceasefire.

The protest took place as Schumer prepared to travel with a delegation of lawmakers to Israel.

The New York Police Department arrested 100 of these protesters, including New York City Assembly Member Zohran Mamdani, as well as "rabbis, and descendants of Holocaust survivors", according to Mamdani's office.

Other mass protests took place in major US cities on Friday, including in Washington where a coalition of pro-Palestinian groups demonstrated in front of the Washington Post office, projecting onto the office building's facade that the newspaper is "complicit in genocide".

On Thursday, a group of pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrated in Washington outside a fundraiser for the Israeli government-aligned Jewish National Fund, an organisation founded more than a century ago to buy and develop land in Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine for Jewish settlers.