NEW YORK — As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel addressed the U.N. General Assembly on Friday morning, protesters on the streets of New York City addressed Netanyahu and the world.

The demonstrators began gathering in Times Square, across town from the United Nations building, early in the morning. A Palestinian flag flapped in the breeze as some of the protesters, most of them young, held signs reading “End All U.S. Aid to Israel,” “Arrest Netanyahu” and “Stop Starving Gaza Now!”

The crowd cheered loudly when organizers announced that heads of state had walked out of the General Assembly chamber en masse during Netanyahu’s speech. “Netanyahu you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide!” they chanted.

By the time the protesters began marching toward the U.N. around 10:15 a.m.,

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