In recent weeks, actions have been organized at the Israel Consulate in San Francisco to protest the country's war crimes in Gaza. On September 12, "blood" flowed into the gutter after demonstrators used red paint to make bloody hand prints on an Israeli flag to protest the starvation and ongoing massacre with American bombs. Others drummed, banged on pots and pans, and blew horns. Some held photos of skeletal starving children.

When the Israeli Consul in San Francisco decided that red "blood" in the street resulting from any demonstration should be hosed away, he was probably not counting on the symbolism of "blood" flowing in the gutter in front of the Israeli consulate.

Protests at the Consulate are ongoing. CODEPINK Bay Area joined demonstrators for the September 12 action. "We will join the 'Noise Action' at the Israeli Zionist Consulate with bloody red hands and chants to demand that Israel and the U.S. stop murdering and starving civilians in Gaza," CODEPINK Bay Area wrote in an event announcement.

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