Pro-Palestinian demonstrators rallied in New York Saturday for the second straight day, with an estimated 1,200 marching across the Brooklyn Bridge into City Hall Park under the watch of dozens of riot-clad officers.

"Sharon has got to go!” shouted the mostly youthful and diverse crowd, waving Palestinian flags and a devil's head crafted of papier-mache that bore the Israeli prime minister's name. "Bush, Sharon, what do you say? How many kids did you kill today?”

"We're here to send a message to our government that the situation against the Palestinians is oppression,” said Monica Tarazi, director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, lambasting the United States' monetary support of Israel.

The rally -- which included several divergent groups, including Jewish groups -- was smaller than Friday evening's protests in midtown.

More than 200 officers, many on horseback and some in helmets with pepper spray in their pockets, kept an eye on the peaceful but often boisterous crowd. They were supervised by Chief of Department Joseph Esposito. There were no arrests.

Some cars bottlenecked in traffic blared horns in support; others just blared horns at the inconvenience. Cyclists and pedestrians had to keep to the side of the bridge and wait out the procession.

Some carried signs asking for peace. Others praised suicide bombers.

"The martyrs who bomb themselves, I give them props,” said an Algerian-American girl and a student at Fort Hamilton High School in Brooklyn. She said her parents didn't know she was at the rally.

"All they had is their bodies,” she said of suicide bombers. "They had to protect themselves. If they had weapons, they would have fought back.”

Another group trailed behind a model of a black coffin, shouting in Arabic, "God is great!” and in English, "Free, free Palestine!”

There were some Jewish marchers, including an informal group Jews Against the Occupation.

"We have gone through the Holocaust. Have we not learned from that?” asked Betsy Andrews, 38, an editor at Zagat from Prospect Heights.

Many marchers were harshly critical of the United States, and asked the Israeli army to leave Palestinian-controlled cities.

"America told them to get out of the West Bank, but it did not offer them consequences,” said Jafar Abdul Salaam, 35, from West New York, N.J., a warehouse worker who converted to Islam five years ago.

Tony, a midtown architect who would not give his last name, said he reflected on his mother, 70, who is in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

"I'm very concerned,” said Tony, who was born in Canada to Palestinian parents and says he fears for his own safety in the United States. "She's been visited twice by the Israeli army on the pretext of looking for militants.”

Tony, expressing pessimism about the region's future, referred to the assassin of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, architect of the first peace treaty with the Palestinians: "It seems that Yigdal Amir won the moment.”