Police removed pro-Palestine campaigners from a North East council meeting after the group chanted "ceasefire now" and waved flags.
Councillors were evacuated in Newcastle after protesters brought the meeting to a halt.
Activists chanted from the public gallery of the Newcastle City Council chamber on Wednesday night.
Dozens of people gathered outside the civic centre as the meeting was suspended while police officers escorted the demonstrators away.
Activists chanted from the public gallery of the Newcastle City Council chamber on Wednesday night
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During the incident, lord mayor Councillor Veronica Dunn banged her gavel in an attempt to gain control of the situation.
However, a short while later she ordered councillors to leave the room.
In December last year, a petition was handed to the council with more than 4,000 signing the campaign which called on the authority to "speak out in support of an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the cessation of Israeli air and ground assault on Gaza".
The latest protest comes days after the Hamas-run health ministry said the Palestinian death toll from the war between Israel and Hamas had passed 25,000.
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Labour council leader Nick Kemp said then that his group had given support to five separate requests within the petition.
This included calling for an end to Israel’s siege and denouncing antisemitism and Islamophobia, but not calling for a ceasefire.
In response to Wednesday's protest, Kemp said: "We understand the anger of some members of our community in relation to the conflict in Gaza and Israel. I share their calls for peace in the region and an end to the loss of innocent lives.
"Our thoughts remain with all those who have been killed in the region, as well as those residents in Newcastle who have friends, relatives or loved ones in both Gaza and Israel.
Councillors were evacuated in Newcastle after protesters brought the meeting to a halt
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"The Council has always condemned Hamas’s appalling attacks and killing of civilians in Israel, and the collective punishment and killing of Palestinians in Gaza by the Israeli government.
"We would continue to call on the support of the Newcastle Council of Faiths, and all community groups, to come together and work to ensure that Newcastle remains a City of Sanctuary – a city that cannot be divided."
Campaign group, Shut Down Rafael Newcastle wrote on social media: "Yesterday we disrupted a Newcastle City Council meeting , protesting their failure to vote for a ceasefire.
"These spineless rats scuttled from one end of the Newcastle Civic Centre to the other rather than face being held to account for their complicity in genocide."
