In one of the largest pro-Palestinian demonstrations to date in the US capital, protesters repeated their call for US President Joe Biden to stop sending arms to Israel and chanted “free Palestine” and “ceasefire now”, Al Jazeera reports.

Adam Abosherieah, one of the speakers, said more than 100 family members, including his 83-year-old father, mother and brother have been killed in Israeli air strikes.

“Dozens of my family members’ bodies are still under the rubble,” Abosherieah, a pharmacist from New Jersey, said. “President Biden can easily put a stop to this genocide… He can easily pick up the phone and call Israel to stop this madness.”