TAMPA - Protesters stood outside MacDill Air Force Base Thursday morning to demand the US stop sending money and arms to Israel.

Five people were arrested before 10 a.m. when several of them held up a sign in the middle of Dale Mabry Highway that said, "Veteran's Against Genocide."

Several dozen members of a group calling themselves "Veterans for Peace" demanded that the US stop sending money and arms to a government that they say is unnecessarily brutalizing innocent people who live in the Gaza Strip.

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Several international bodies have found that Israel's occupation is causing a famine and qualifies as a genocide.

While President Trump has shown some frustration over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's military-first approach, the protesters are pushing the US

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