Anti-Israel agitators interrupt Blinken Senate testimony, hauled out by Capitol police

At least four anti-Israel agitators were hauled out of a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing by Capitol police while Secretary of State Antony Blinken testified about his department's budget on Tuesday.

While Blinken began his opening statement, a man stood up shouting the name of a 6-year-old boy reportedly killed in Gaza.

"Blinken, you will be remembered as the Butcher of Gaza," the man yelled as officers pulled him out of the hearing room. "You will be remembered for murdering innocent Palestinians."

As other protesters started to speak up, Chairman Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., instructed an officer to remove the individual.

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Cardin warned that anyone who was speaking would be removed, but that did not deter an elderly woman who repeatedly shouted, "Stop the genocide," while being escorted out by police.

Blinken began his prepared statement again, when a woman suddenly rushed toward his table shouting, "Blinken is a war criminal. He is a war criminal. The blood of 40,000 people is on his hands."

"The blood of 40,000 Palestinians is on his hands," she continued as Capitol police officers physically pulled her from the room. "He is a war criminal. He is a war criminal. Blinken is a war criminal."

A fourth person, another female protester, was then removed while shouting, "Blinken, you are funding a genocide in Gaza. There have been seven mass graves outside of hospitals."

"This is sick. This is deranged. You are a war criminal. Shame on you," she yelled.

Blinken is advocating before Congress for President Biden's more than $60 billion budget request for the State Department and the Agency for International Development. Blinken is testifying before the