Pro-Palestine protesters in Washington send Trump a message
Al Jazeera by Alastair McCready, Virginia Pietromarchi, Edna Mohamed, Usaid Siddiqui and Nils Adler 05 April 2025

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  • Pro-Palestine protesters in Washington send Trump a message
And Trump has a Message for you!

There was a rally that lasted an hour in which people from Gaza expressed how they lost members of their family

The protesters are trying to send a message to the Trump administration,
1. it’s time to stop funding Israel
2. of course, the continuing assault on Gaza

What is interesting is that Benjamin Netanyahu will be here on Monday It’s really about tariffs but Donald Trump has said on many occasions, he is going to fully support anything the Israelis do in Gaza, effectively giving them a green light

Trump likes the idea of what has been said many times that he is the most pro-Israeli president ever to sit in the Oval Office — Thank you Mr. President

The protesters are now heading from the rally site on Pennsylvania Avenue, not far from the White House, down to the headquarters of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

And the reason they’re heading there is because there have been several arrests over the last couple of weeks of people who have expressed their concern about what is happening in Gaza They were here on student visas or green cards and have been effectively taken off the street by ICE agents