WASHINGTON (Dispatches) – American students and pro-Palestinian activists have staged a sit-in outside the headquarters of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Chicago, calling for the prosecution of the pro-Israel lobbying group’s leadership over its support for the ongoing genocidal war in Gaza.
Activists raised banners reading “War criminal AIPAC” and “ARREST NETANYAHU,” considering the organization part of the war machine responsible for “killing Palestinians in Gaza.”
Organizers stated that the action was a direct reaction to the intensification of Israeli assaults on Gaza and the increasing number of civilian casualties.
They called upon the US government to hold AIPAC and its leaders responsible for their involvement in what they described as war crimes.
Sources at Gaza hospitals say 60 Palestinians have been killed, including 27 aid seekers, in Israeli raids on the strip since Saturday dawn.
Four people were killed and 10 wounded in a strike on a residence on Jaffa Street in the Tuffah area, east of Gaza City. 
Medical sources at Nasser Hospital said the death toll from the Israeli bombing of tents housing displaced people in the so-called “humanitarian” al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis, has risen to 11.
A source at al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said two people were killed and many wounded in an Israeli drone attack on a tent housing displaced people south of Deir el-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.
Moreover, the WAFA news agency reported that a mother and her three children lost their lives in a bombing of Jamal Abdel Nasser Street, opposite the Islamic University, west of Gaza City.
At least 57,762 Palestinians have been killed, mostly women and children, and another 137,656 individuals injured in the brutal Israeli onslaught on Gaza since October 7, 2023.
The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants last November for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former minister of military affairs Yoav Gallant, citing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
The Zionist regime also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the besieged coastal territory.