By SAMANTHA CHANEY
BOSTON – Boston’s Storrow Drive was temporarily closed Sunday afternoon as pro-Palestinian protesters gathered on the road and stopped traffic.
The protest comes just one day before October 7, a year after the Hamas attack in Israel.
Protesters started their rally on Boston Common before moving to Charles Street and then for half an hour to Storrow Drive. They ended their demonstration outside the Israeli consulate in Boston, where hundreds of people called for an end to violence in the Middle East.
“We wanted to do something where people can really feel it and see it, because this is about giving a perspective on what happened to people in Gaza and now in Lebanon,” said one protester. “When you go around aimlessly, changing places, trying to be safe.”
Police said the demonstration was peaceful and no arrests were made in connection with the gathering.
