NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) – A group of people vandalized the front entrance of the Permanent Observer Mission of the State of Palestine to the United Nations in Manhattan on Wednesday, police confirmed.
Police said that a group of about 15 people threw red paint at the entrance of 115 East 65th St. at around 6 a.m. When cops arrived, they found the street was also littered with pamphlets and splattered with red paint.
One of the pamphlets called out the Palestinian Authority (PA) for being too close to Israeli and the United States governments and accused the PA of using violence to disperse pro-Palestine protests, “including those in the past eight months, and assist the Zionist entity in suppression of those who oppose genocide, ethnic cleansing, and occupation.”
It also stated that through it's actions, the group will "continue to globalize the intifada and locate complicity for the current genocide of Palestinians among all nations who refuse to cut ties with the Zionist settler state."
In its closing, the pamphlet called on Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the State of Palestine and the Palestinian National Authority, and the PA to “put your money where your mouth is.”
According to ABC7, a supervisor in a nearby building who said he has surveillance video said it shows two people on the back of a U-Haul truck shortly after 65th Street was littered with paper and red paint.
Some 15 demonstrators were briefly at the scene before leaving in the U-Haul, police said.
1010 WINS/WCBS 880 has reached out to the Palestinian Mission for comment.
The group has not yet been identified.
An investigation is ongoing.
Anyone with information about the vandalism is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).