Dozens of people were arrested in Manhattan on Friday after activists from Jewish Voice for Peace staged a sit-in at the offices of Democratic Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, as part of a wave of Jewish protests calling for a cease-fire in Gaza and for Israel to allow more humanitarian aid into the besieged enclave.

Happening now outside of Senator Chuck Schumers office in NYC.

Dozens of demonstrators, calling for a flood of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, were arrested at the Manhattan offices of New York’s two senators.