Katie Hawkinson
- Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in DC on Saturday for a pro-Palestinian demonstration.
- Organizers said hundreds of buses brought people from across the country to the nation's capital.
- Insider spoke to people from as far as Georgia and Illinois who made the journey to the protest.
Aali had never been to a protest before he came to the pro-Palestine march in Washington, DC, on Saturday.
"This is good," Aali said at the demonstration. "If you can do something, you have to do it."
It was also Aali's first time traveling for a protest — he told Insider he took a bus from Pennsylvania to the nation's capital on Saturday morning.