[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Anti-Israel protesters and police clashed in Brooklyn after thousands flooded a predominantly Arab and Middle Eastern neighborhood Saturday night.
The protest in Bay Ridge saw thousands of the pro-Palestinian demonstrators chant 'move, cops, get out the way. We know you're Israeli-trained' as they descended on the community, stopping traffic and lighting fires in the process.
Part of the procession, billed online as Flood Brooklyn for Palestine, began to clash with NYPD officers as night fell, video shows - as their numbers swelled to an estimated 5,000 over the course of the day.
The officers were subsequently filmed trying to usher them out of a intersection along Fifth Avenue where they had shut down traffic, during which an unspecified number of pro-Palestinians were arrested and taken into custody.
Several cops were seen punching protesters in the fray, which came after ralliers gathered to demand the US withdraw support for Israel. Armed with Palestinian flags and signs, much of the group refused to comply with cops' demands.
'Say it loud, say it clear, we don’t want no Zionists here!' protesters city were heard shouting from within the frenzy, which, thanks to police, was confined to the most part around 72nd Street and Fifth Avenue.
Meanwhile, other, more radical revelers - who ranged in age from preteens to seniors - clutched signage with scrawlings that insisted 'Zionism is genocide,' and that 'Resistance is justified when people are occupied.'
The messages appeared to disregard - and even exonerate - the crimes carried out by Hamas since October 9, including the kidnapping of several Israeli and American citizens in an apparent declaration of war.
While the conflict is now underway overseas, domestic divisions have since surfaced stateside - spurring dueling demonstrations across the nation.
Bay Ridge on Saturday was no different - despite pro-Israelis being kept away from the procession by members of the NYPD.
Footage from the neighborhood over the course of the night, though, showed how the demonstration still devolved - as officers tasked with keeping a handle on the chaos quickly found themselves overwhelmed as the group grew.
Amid the furor, one protestor was heard calling for the 'full liberation of all of Palestine... to every single inch, from river to the sea.'
Donning a T-shirt of one of the event’s organizers, the Palestinian-led Within Our Lifetime, the woman also reportedly shouted: 'We are not like other groups simply calling for a cease-fire; We are calling not simply for an end to genocide.'
Instead, she said, 'We are calling for an end to the siege, an end to the blockade.
'An end to the occupation,' she specified.
Thousands of other women attended the rally, which at first started peacefully but devolved shortly after the sun set.
Aside from the local Palestinian community, several members of other groups - for the most part Middle Eastern - were also in attendance, for a gathering that Within Our Lifetime had advertised as a means to 'end US-sponsored genocide in Gaza.'
The procession, one of dozens that have sprouted up across the city over the past week-and-a-half, has since dissipated - but those supporting Palestine have vowed to continue to voice their opinions to ensure no other innocents are killed.
The protest was preceded by another one in Manhattan on Friday, where some 139 pro-Palestinians were cuffed for blocking traffic in Midtown - by a group organized by the Democratic Socialists of America.
As the protest reached its apex Saturday night, an Israeli aircraft struck a compound beneath a mosque in the occupied West Bank - a location the country's military said was being used by terrorists to organize attacks
Palestinian medics have confirmed that at least one person was killed, as Israel continues to shell the region after the Hamas-led attacks earlier in the week that killed at least 1,400 Israelis.
Israel said the compound beneath al-Ansar Mosque, in Jenin refugee camp, belonged to operatives from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad who were responsible for attacks in recent months, releasing images that it said showed an entrance to a bunker under the mosque.
It also released a diagram that it said showed where militants had stored weapons, while footage on social media appeared to show the scene of the air strike, with a gaping hole in one of the mosque's exterior walls.
Several dozen Palestinians are seen assessing the damage, as ambulance sirens blare in the background. 
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