SEATTLE, WA (MyBellinghamNow.com) – Pro-Palestine protests disrupted traffic around the nation Monday, and Sea-Tac is seeing some of the action.
The Seattle Times reports that protesters began to block the major road to the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac) around 3 p.m.
That protest began to be cleared by authorities around 5 p.m., with initial arrests being made and the last cars towed away. Protestors were led off the road with their hands still locked in tubes. Authorities still advise travelers to use other routes to Sea-Tac including the light rail.
Freeways and bridges in major transit arteries in US cities were blocked by protesters temporarily. Other places that the protests snarled traffic include California, Illinois, New York and Oregon.
Protesters blocked traffic to the Chicago O’Hare International Airport until about 9 a.m. and the Brooklyn Bridge was blocked to Manhattan-bound traffic until about 3 p.m. The Golden Gate Bridge was completely blocked by demonstrators in addition to a disruption to Interstate 880 in Oakland. Protesters shut down I-5 for about 45 minutes in Eugene, Oregon.
Arrests have been made in the Seattle, New York, Chicago, Oregon and Bay Area protests.
So far, the Gaza health ministry attributes 33,700 total Palestinian deaths to the Israel offensive, adding that women and children make up two-thirds of the dead.
