'Let Gaza live': Jewish demonstrators arrested at New York protest seder – video

Hundreds of Jewish anti-war demonstrators have been arrested during a Passover seder that doubled as a protest in New York. Protesters shut down a major thoroughfare to pray for a ceasefire and urge the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, to end military aid to Israel, close to his Brooklyn home. About 300 arrests took place at Grand Army Plaza, where thousands of mostly Jewish New Yorkers gathered for the seder, a ritual that marked the second night of the holiday celebrated as a festival of freedom by Jews worldwide. The seder came just before the US Senate resoundingly passed a military package that includes $26bn for Israel

• Not like other Passovers': hundreds of Jewish demonstrators arrested after New York protest seder