60 arrested at pro-Palestinian demonstrations in Brooklyn, Manhattan

Five dozen demonstrators were detained at pro-Palestinian protests Friday in New York City, issued summonses and freed, the NYPD’s press office said Saturday.

Of the 60 who were cited, 57 were in Brooklyn and three in Manhattan, the office said. Specifics of which laws were violated and how weren’t disclosed.

But according to a news release by one of those detained, Assemb. Zohran K. Mamdani, demonstrators blocked the entryway to the Brooklyn street where U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, an avowed Israel supporter, lives with his family.

The demonstration sought a cease-fire in Israel, which has been pummeling Gaza in retaliation for a terrorist attack that left more than 1,200 dead in Israel and 150 kidnapped.

The detentions came on a day when hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters marched from Times Square to the Israeli consulate in Manhattan, responding to the Hamas call for a "global jihad."

That protest was met with a smaller pro-Israel protest.

People walked with signs, banners and flags in support of the Palestinians, some in Arabic headdresses and some stopping to pray on the sidewalk. There were helicopters overhead and a heavy NYPD presence. A couple of young men in the crowd burned Israeli flags.

Protesters interviewed did not want to be identified, but one young man said: "I'm Algerian and we struggled with colonialism for 130 years … I support anyone who is fighting for freedom, fighting to get their land back."

The protest came after a former Hamas chief called for a "global jihad" amid the Israel-Hamas war. Former Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal on Thursday called for protests across the Muslim world in support of the Palestinians and for the people of neighboring countries.

In Gaza, Palestinians, prompted by Israel’s warnings to abandon their homes in the north, raced to leave while a buildup of Israeli military prompted concerns Israel was preparing to invade Gaza, which Hamas rules.

The evacuation comes after a surprise terror attack from Hamas last week.

In the Hamas attack, dancing Israeli concertgoers were slain in the desert and the elderly, babies and other civilians, as well as soldiers, were kidnapped, shot or otherwise killed. The attackers recorded or livestreamed much of the violence. More than 1,200 people, almost all Israelis but foreign nationals from other countries, too, were slain.

That attack and the resulting response from Israel in Gaza, after Israel declared war, has resulted in the deaths of thousands of civilians.

In the Manhattan protest, a Brooklyn woman, Jennifer Hansen, 32, was arrested near the Israeli consulate on Second Avenue for allegedly trying to trip and kick police officers, and then resisting during her arrest, the NYPD press office said.

“The woman was then observed repeatedly kicking a Lieutenant in the leg. After the individual was taken into custody, officers attempted to place the woman into a police vehicle when she pushed her body weight against an officer in an attempt to prevent her from being placed into the vehicle. Additionally the woman refused to lift her legs to step into the vehicle and repeatedly kicked an officer in the legs and wrapped her legs around the officer’s legs,” the press office wrote in a news release.

Hansen was charged with resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration, assault and disorderly conduct.