Watch: Thousands Flood Downtown Chicago Streets During Pro-Palestine Protest

A pro-Palestine protest drew thousands of supporters to downtown Chicago on Wednesday, according to local reports.

One video, captured from a vantage point several stories above street level, showed the stunning size of the protest as it slowly moved down Madison Street.

"Free, free Palestine," the crowd was recorded chanting as they marched through the city.

The crowd marched to the Israeli Consulate, according to Chicago Sun-Times visual journalist Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere.

A barricade was erected outside of Accenture Tower, where the consulate is located, and several people reportedly attempted to breach the barricade but were stopped by police and organizers, LaRiviere reported.

Wednesday saw pro-Palestine protests and rallies in many of the country's largest cities. In the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, New York, a large rally was chanting “Palestine will be free.”

In Washington, D.C., police began to arrest pro-Palestine supporters who were at the Cannon Rotunda at the U.S. Capitol demanding a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Another protest formed in the evening in front of the Israel Embassy chanting "end the siege on Gaza now."

The protests come in the wake of Tuesday's deadly bombing of the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza which was reported to have killed upwards of 500 people.

Hamas, the group that launched surprise attacks on Israel 12 days ago, blamed the explosion on Israel. The Israel Defense Forces attributed the blast to a failed rocket launch at the hands of Islamic Jihad, a Gaza-based militant group separate from Hamas.

Dueling protests in New York City on Tuesday night following the hospital attack set pro-Israel and pro-Palestine protestors against each other as the two sides chanted at each other.