Just about 100 anti-Israel agitators stormed and occupied the foyer of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco on Monday ahead of police arrested a number of for now not leaving the grounds.
FOX 2 in San Francisco reported that it was once now not right away transparent what number of activists have been detained, despite the fact that a spokesperson for the consulate mentioned kind of 100 demonstrators entered the construction.
Police replied to the scene with vehicles to take away the demonstrators, and the station mentioned no less than a dozen have been got rid of from the consulate.
Demonstrators have been warned more than one occasions to go away the construction ahead of they have been detained, in keeping with the San Francisco Police Division.
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The San Francisco Israeli Consulate place of work was once occupied by means of anti-Israel demonstrators on Monday. (KTVU photographer Alan Leong)
Protesters reportedly instructed the San Francisco Chronicle they wouldn’t go away until pressured to take action. Police then blocked the doorways of the construction and ordered the protesters to go away, the station reported.
A spokesperson for the consulate instructed Fox Information Virtual no team of workers participants have been injured.
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The San Francisco Israeli Consulate place of work was once occupied by means of anti-Israel demonstrators on Monday. (KTVU photographer Alan Leong)
“We’re appalled, however now not stunned, on the strive by means of a handful of pro-Hamas rioters to violently compromise our skill to perform as a diplomatic undertaking. They are going to now not be triumphant,” Consul Common Marco Sermoneta mentioned. “The individuals who entered the foyer of the construction the place the Consulate is located are the similar individuals who have celebrated the rape, maiming, burning alive, and homicide of loads of Israelis slightly an afternoon after October seventh.”
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Sermoneta added that since Hamas invaded Israel that day, mobs of demonstrators have made campuses within the Bay House “inhospitable” and “bad to Jews.”
The mobs additionally grew to become town council conferences into “despicable spectacles of antisemitism and mass-atrocity denial,” Sermoneta mentioned.
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“We thank [the San Francisco Police Department] for his or her speedy reaction and can proceed to make certain that we offer all products and services as standard,” he added.
