http://archive.today/2025.08.01-203303/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/nyregion/gaza-war-protesters-schumer-gillibrand.html
Dozens of demonstrators protesting Israel’s war in Gaza were arrested Friday at the Midtown Manhattan offices of New York’s senators, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, days after they broke with many of their fellow Democrats by voting against a resolution to halt U.S. arms sales to Israel.
On Friday, more than 100 protesters, who were organized by the antiwar group Jewish Voice for Peace, chanted and banged pots and pans in the lobby of the Third Avenue building where both Mr. Schumer, the Senate minority leader, and Ms. Gillibrand have office space.
The traditional bipartisan consensus in support of Israel among American lawmakers has collapsed over the course of Israel’s nearly two-year war in Gaza, which has killed more than 60,000 people, according to Gazan officials.
Gaza has teetered on the brink of famine since the early months of the war, but the crisis has exploded since March, when Israel blocked the entry of humanitarian goods into the enclave in a bid to squeeze concessions from Hamas.
Israel later established a new aid distribution system that largely cut out humanitarian organizations and funneled aid through a private organization, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which is backed by Israel and run by private American contractors.
That organization has been heavily criticized for failing to meet the needs of Gaza’s two million people, as well as for the deaths of hundreds of people, many of whom were shot by Israeli soldiers as they tried to access the aid. Israel has described some of those shootings as an effort at crowd control.