More than a thousand American Jews demonstrated in front of the home of the majority leader in the US Senate, Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer, yesterday, Friday, demanding an end to the Israeli aggression against the besieged Gaza Strip.

According to reports from the New York Police, dozens of demonstrators who called on the United States to end Israeli aid to Israel were arrested (outside Schumer's house).

The protests come on a day of city-wide "Day of Rage" protests against brutal Israeli air strikes in Gaza following unprecedented Hamas attacks, which led to the deaths of more than 1,900 Palestinians, most of them children and women.

According to press reports, hundreds of people gathered in the “Grand Army Square” to participate in the march, which was organized by the “Jewish Voice for Peace” organization – an activist group that describes itself as anti-Zionist.

“Not in our name,” demonstrators chanted outside, according to videos shared on social media.

They carried a large banner reading, “Jews say stop genocide against the Palestinians,” in front of the door of the building where he lives, and a number of police officers were standing near him.

Others carried signs reading, “Zionism is terrorism” and “Stop Israeli apartheid.”

Police were seen escorting dozens of handcuffed detainees to MTA buses.

According to Jewish Voice for Peace, those detained included “rabbis, politicians, scholars and descendants of Holocaust survivors – ranging in age from 20 to 80 years.”

“We demand an end to the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza,” the demonstrators said. “This will not happen again today,” they said.

New York State Assembly members Zahran Kwame Mamdani, of the 36th Congressional District, and Marcella Mittens, of the 51st Congressional District, were among the marchers, according to the group.

Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish elected official in the United States, known for his strong connection to Israel and the Israeli lobby, AIPAC, will travel to Israel this weekend, where he will lead his Senate colleagues in a show of support for Netanyahu's government, his office announced earlier Friday.

He and the delegation will meet with Israel's new emergency government, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, where they will discuss what resources the United States can provide in its fight against Hamas, a spokesman for the senator told the newspaper.

Earlier Friday, pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Manhattan marched from Baruch College downtown through Times Square to the United Nations headquarters on East 45th Street, waving flags and carrying signs demanding an end to the war.

A total number of arrests at the demonstrations will not be available until late Saturday, an NYPD spokesperson said.