Pro-Palestinian protesters blocked traffic on the Durham Freeway in North Carolina on Thursday evening at the height of rush-hour traffic.

Several dozen people blocked both northbound lanes of Highway 147, while hundreds of others stood alongside the highway and on a bridge above the road, according to the News & Observer. Protesters parked six cars in the road to block traffic.

Jewish Voice for Peace Triangle organized the protest to call for a cease-fire in the Israel–Hamas war. Protesters wore shirts that said “ceasefire” while chanting “cease-fire now,” the outlet reported.

Police asked protesters to leave the highway to allow traffic to proceed. Just before 6 p.m., police warned activists that arrests could be imminent.

Leah Whitehead, an activist with Durham Beyond Policing, told the paper that protesters would leave the highway under any one of three circumstances: if police arrest them, if they feel the situation isn’t safe, or if Democratic representative Valerie Foushee answers their call.

Protesters held a banner featuring Foushee’s phone number. In 2022, the Democratic lawmaker received money from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobbying group on Capitol Hill, according to the report.

Foushee’s campaign told the paper during the 2022 campaign that she was one of several candidates who “received support from AIPAC because of her unequivocal support for a two-state solution in the Middle East and her belief that Israel is a critically important strategic ally — and the only democracy — in the region.”