At least 7,000 pro-Palestinian Arab protesters shut down the Brooklyn Bridge during a march through the borough on Saturday, openly cheering Hamas’ attacks on Israel and justifying the murders of innocent mothers and babies, The New York Post reported.

The march began at 3:00 p.m. local time in front of the Brooklyn Museum in Crown Heights, not far from the Chabad Lubavitch headquarters on Eastern Parkway.

One protester was quoted as having said, “Freedom by any means, land back by any means. I believe the settler state of Israel must be taken down.”

The demonstrators held signs with antisemitic slogans such as “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will be Free,” and “F—k Israel, Justice Palestine”, according to The New York Post.

They headed north along Flatbush Avenue to the Barclays Center, and then converged on the Brooklyn Bridge, stopping traffic on the Manhattan-bound side around 6:00 p.m. as some scaled metal barriers and triumphantly waved Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) flags.

Officers shut down traffic on the Brooklyn-bound side as a precautionary measure.

As of 6:00 p.m., there were no reported arrests as the NYPD swarmed the route with roughly 1,800 officers and were using drones for crowd control. Two NYPD helicopters also buzzed along the Brooklyn Bridge.