Pro-Palestinian protesters briefly disrupt Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

This is the second year that protesters carrying Palestinian flags and anti-genocide posters have stopped the parade. Last year, a group of pro-Palestinian protesters jumped over the barricades and stuck to Sixth Avenue. During last year’s parade, a float member from the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe of Massachusetts also held a Palestinian flag.

At a pre-Thanksgiving event on Wednesday, the New York mayor warned protesters to stay away from the parade and called any groups conspiring to attend the event “grins.”

“I really want to take this opportunity to tell those grinning people who think they’re disrupting the parade that that’s not going to happen,” Adams said. “The way we responded last year, we will go after those who try to disrupt the parade in any way we can.”

In one of the first major steps to end violence in the Middle East, a ceasefire was agreed to end 13 months of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Joe Biden announced the deal on Wednesday afternoon.

“Effective tomorrow at 04:00 local time (02:00 GMT on Wednesday), fighting on the Lebanese-Israeli border will end,” Biden said. He added that the agreement was aimed at a “permanent cessation of hostilities.”

The ceasefire began as planned overnight on Wednesday. However, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip continues, with at least 44,330 people killed and 104,933 injured.