As a cease-fire agreement announced Friday between Israel and Hamas brought temporary, uneasy peace to the conflicted region, several hundred people gathered at Town Hall on Saturday to support Palestine and call on the United States to cut its financial support of Israel.

Mohammad Abbassi of Dar-ul-Islah in Teaneck praised the gathering, which included several children, for “standing on the front lines” to “expose the lies that have been perpetrated on the Palestinian people since 1948.”

“Stand up, rise up and defend your rights,” Abbassi said. “Otherwise you will always be marginalized.”

The event drew only a few counterprotesters, some of whom waved Israeli flags and U.S. flags.

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{Matzav.com}