New York: more than 100 arrested after Israel-Hamas war protest blocks traffic

Arrests are the latest this week after mass protests across the country, including at the US Capitol and the White House

New York City police arrested more than 130 anti-war protesters after hundreds of people blocked traffic on Fifth Avenue on Friday night.

A crowd of about 1,000 demonstrators called for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict and marched in the rain from Bryant Park to the Midtown Manhattan office of the New York US senator Kirsten Gillibrand.