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WASHINGTON DC, UNITED STATES - APRIL 5, 2025: Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators converged on the Capitol in Washington, DC, on Saturday, April 5, as part of the nationwide "Hands Off!" protest against US President Donald Trump and his senior advisor Elon Musk. The rally featured a poignant and powerful display: thousands of children���s shoes and sandals arranged in rows outside the Capitol building, each pair symbolizing one of the more than 17,000 Palestinian children killed in Gaza amid ongoing Israeli genocide, which have received significant backing from the United States. Among the crowd, a group of women dressed in blood-stained white burial shrouds, each holding a doll wrapped in white cloth, symbolizing infants killed in the Israeli onslaught. Their display was accompanied by banners reading, ���In Gaza, one child is killed or injured every ten minutes,��� and ���Do Palestinian mothers not grieve the same?��� Activists held a giant Palestinian flag, chanted slogans and carried signs and banners bearing messages such as "Let Gaza Live," "Stop the Genocide," and "Free Palestine." They also called for the release of Palestinian activist and recent Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil and Tufts University doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk, both of whom have been detained in the U.S. Hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets across the country on Saturday to protest US President Donald Trump's policies and business magnate Elon Musk, who serves as senior advisor and led the unofficial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which has been instrumental in the significant downsizing of the federal government, using the rallying cry "Hands Off." (Footage by Fatih Aktas/Anadolu via Getty Images)