Free Palestine sit-in outside Citibank’s headquarters in New York

WASHINGTON (AA) – Hundreds of protestors staged a sit-in Tuesday outside Citibank’s headquarters in New York City for Palestinians in Gaza, who have been under constant Israeli attacks for more than eight months.

“Citibank, Citibank, you can’t hide, you are committing genocide,” they chanted, holding banners in solidarity with Palestine.

The demonstrators demanded an end to the funding of Israel’s attacks in Gaza and called for an immediate cease-fire.

According to an Anadolu reporter on the scene, New York police arrested several protestors after warning them to disperse.

Protests have been persistent across the US, especially at universities, to demand divestment from companies that are profiting from the war in Gaza.

Israel, which has flouted a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire, has faced international condemnation over its war on Gaza.

Israel has killed more than 37,350 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them women and children, and injured more than 85,400 others injured, according to local health authorities.

Because of the Israeli war, vast tracts of Gaza lie in ruins and the residents are facing a crippling blockade of food, clean water and medicine.

Israel stands accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, whose latest ruling ordered it to immediately halt its operation in the southern city of Rafah, where over a million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded on May 6.