Activists swarmed The New York Times office, calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and scattered copies of dummy newspaper "The New York Crimes". They accused the media for its bias towards Israel in the Israel-Hamas war coverage.
Protesters reading out names of thousands of Palestinians, including journalists, killed in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war, in The New York Times office on Thursday. Photo: X
Activists scattered mock newspapers with the title -- 'The New York Crimes' on the floor and read out names of thousands of Palestinians, including journalists, killed in Gaza.
Thousands of protesters carried Palestinian flags and chanted slogans against Israel's bombardments on Gaza as they marched through Midtown Manhattan before reaching The New York Times office. Around 5 pm (local time), a small group of people led by media activists, who called themselves "Writers Bloc" entered The New York Times' lobby with banners.
The activists called on 'The New York Times' management to publicly call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Some of them waved Palestinian flags while others read the names of thousands of Palestinian civilians killed in Gaza, including 36 journalists whose deaths were confirmed since the war began on October 7. The page where the journalists who were killed in the line of duty was titled as, 'We killed our colleagues'.
Police who were present in the lobby of the building managed to clear the area within an hour. There were no reports of those who were arrested in connection with the protest. Photos and videos of the protest have gone viral on social media.
The back window of a New York Police Department (NYPD) vehicle parked outside the building was smashed and spray-painted with 'Free Gaza' on the side of it, according to The New York Post.
Law enforcement sources told The New Post that a smoke bomb was thrown and 'Free Palestine' was scribbled on a window of a Starbucks shop at The New York Times office.
Israel launched a deadly counteroffensive on Gaza, vowing to eliminate Hamas after terrorists stormed the Jewish nation through air, land and sea in the early morning hours of October 7. The Israeli military subsequently began its ground assault against the Palestinian terror group. More than 10,000 people have been killed in Gaza, according to officials.
THE NEW YORK TIMES DENIES CLAIMS OF JOURNALISTS HAVING PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF HAMAS ATTACK
Meanwhile, 'The New York Times' said its journalists did not have any advance knowledge of Hamas's attack on Israel on October 7 or that they accompanied Hamas terrorists was "untrue and outrageous". The US-based newspaper's response came after an Israeli diplomat shared a report by HonestReporting, an Israeli media watchdog, that claimed that photojournalists based in Gaza were captured on camera while Hamas terrorists were attacking the border area in Israel.
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