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Demonstrators block downtown Seattle streets in protest amid Israel-Hamas conflict

SEATTLE — A protest blocked all lanes on Second Avenue at Pike Street Saturday afternoon, posted the Seattle Department of Transportation.

Protestors gathered in Westlake Center around 2 p.m. amid the Israel-Hamas conflict.

The demonstration was organized by the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network which described their organization on Instagram as an Arab Palestinian network for the “Palestinian struggle for liberation.”