Dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested Monday in San Francisco, according to police. 

“Officers developed probable cause to arrest 70 suspects who refused to vacate the building,” said the San Francisco Police Department. “There were no reported injuries as a result of the incident.”

Shortly after 9 a.m., protesters occupied the first floor of the Israeli Consulate to the Pacific Northwest in San Francisco’s Financial District.                     

  • Russell Bates is arrested after participating with more than a hundred pro-Palestinian protestors occupying the Israeli Consulate at 456 Montgomery Street in San Francisco, Calif., on June 3, 2024. (Ruth Dusseault/Bay City News)
  • A woman is arrested after participating with more than a hundred pro-Palestinian protestors occupying the Israeli Consulate at 456 Montgomery Street in San Francisco, Calif., on June 3, 2024. (Ruth Dusseault/Bay City News)
  • More than a hundred pro-Palestinian protestors occupy the Israeli Consulate at 456 Montgomery Street in San Francisco, Calif., on June 3, 2024. (Brooke Anderson via Bay City News)
  • San Francisco police officers stand on the sidewalk outside the Israeli Consulate at 456 Montgomery Street in San Francisco, Calif., on June 3, 2024 after more than a hundred pro-Palestinian protestors occupied the building. (Ruth Dusseault/Bay City News)
  • Protestors stand on the sidewalk outside the Israeli Consulate at 456 Montgomery Street in San Francisco, Calif., on June 3, 2024 after more than a hundred pro-Palestinian protestors occupied the building. (Ruth Dusseault/Bay City News)
Chanting from the back of a police van with supporters on the street, a group is arrested after participating in a pro-Palestinian protest, occupying the Israeli Consulate at 456 Montgomery Street in San Francisco, Calif., on June 3, 2024. (Ruth Dusseault/Bay City News)

The protesters first posted photos on social media shortly after 9 a.m. that showed the group with banners that read “Zionism Kills” and “Committing a genocide makes Jews less safe; Not in my name!” Other protesters gathered outside the building on the street.

The arrested protestors were taken to the county jail and the cited for trespassing and released, according to police.

Although arrests have been made, this remains an open and active investigation. Anyone with information is asked to contact the San Francisco Police Department at 415-575-4444.

Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.