Watch: Anti-Israeli protesters vandalize WWI memorial as cops block group from Met Gala

The star-studded Met Gala was held on Monday evening in New York and ahead of the event, a mob of more than 1,000 pro-Palestine protesters marched towards it. One of them burned an American flag at the site of the 107th Infantry Memorial, which another one vandalized, writing “GAZA” on the monument in black graffiti. Several others placed Palestinian flags on the statue which read, “Stop the Genocide. End the apartheid. Free Palestine.” The Civil War Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman bronze statue in Grand Army Plaza was vandalized as well with the words “Free Gaza” plastered on the front in red graffiti.

The mob was part of a protest organized by a group called Within Our Lifetime and they called it a “Day of Rage”. They marched from Fifth Avenue all the way to East 79th Street Traverse in Central Park before the police finally stopped them and diverted them away from the Met Gala. According to police sources, about two dozen protesters were arrested earlier in the day.