NEW YORK - Hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators swarmed the Brooklyn Museum on Friday. The New York City Police Department says arrests were made, but it is unknown exactly how many people were taken into custody. The protests started around 4 p.m. in Fort Greene, where hundreds gathered to march near the Barclays Center.

NEW YORK >> New York City police said on Saturday they had taken into custody more than two dozen people in connection with Friday’s pro-Palestinian protests at the Brooklyn Museum.

Hundreds of pro-Palestine demonstrators swarmed the Brooklyn Museum in New York City on Friday, May 31, taking over the lobby and exterior of the museum, hanging a "Free Palestine" banner

Led with banners reading 'Resistance by any means necessary,' 'Resisting the Nakba since 1948,' and 'From Gaza to Jenin, revolution until victory,' demonstrators marched through Brooklyn.

Officers were filmed punching several people at a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Bay Ridge. A large protest in Brooklyn against Israel’s military offensive in Gaza erupted into a chaotic scene on Saturday, as the police arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators and at times confronted them violently.

The protest marked the 76th anniversary of the Nabka, when 700,000 Palestinians fled or were forced from their homes

New York police break up a protest for Palestine - as demonstrators take to the streets around the world to demand a ceasefire

Anti-Israel protesters clashed with New York Police Department (NYPD) officers on Saturday, resulting in a series of arrests and chaotic scenes in the city’s Brooklyn neighbourhood.Video footage captured a throng of some 250 demonstrators pushing back against police efforts to redirect them toward the sidewalk in Bay Ridge,