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About 200 demonstrators protesting Israel’s deadly war in Gaza were arrested in a sit-in outside the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, police said. The protesters chanted “Let Gaza live!” and “Up up with liberation, down down with occupation! in front of the stock exchange’s landmark building in lower Manhattan. “The reason we’re here is to demand that the US government stop sending bombs to Israel and stop profiting off of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza,” said Beth Miller, political director of Jewish Voice for Peace, the group that organised the demonstration. “Because what’…

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