Ben Cohen was arrested of seven people after U.S. Secretary of Health Robert F Kennedy Jr. interrupted his testimony.

Ben and Jerry's ice cream and six other co-founders were undermining the U.S. Senate hearing in protest against Washington's support for Israel's war in Gaza.

Wednesday's arrest was after U.S. Secretary of Health Robert F Kennedy Jr testified to lawmakers during a reorganization of federal health agencies.

“Congress has paid for it by buying bombs and paying money to kill poor children in Gaza, and by driving the children out of Medicaid,” Cohen said.

Seven people were arrested for "crowding, obstruction or discomfort, assaulting police or refusing to arrest, U.S. Capitol police said in a statement.

The Capitol Police Department said Cohen was only charged with allegations of crowding, obstacles or discomfort.

Cohen and his Ben & Jerry Greenfield, co-founder, are known for their progressive activism, including opposition to Israeli action in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

Jewish Cohen said in an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the United States has a "strange relationship" with Israel, involving Washington "providing weapons to its genocide."

"Now, what it means to be an American is that we are the world's largest exporter of weapons, we have the world's largest military, and we support the massacre of the people of Gaza," Cohen said.

"If anyone protests against the massacre of the Gaza people, we will arrest them. What does our country stand for?"

In 2021, Ben & Jerry announced that it would no longer allow its Israeli licensees to sell its ice cream in the West Bank and Gaza, saying that doing so would be “inconsistent with our values.”

The following year, a U.S. judge rejected Ben & Jerry's bid for a ban on the ban from blocking sales because the company failed to prove it would suffer irreparable injuries.

Ben & Jerry's was founded in Vermont and its parent company Unilever in 1978, and later settled legal disputes on undisclosed terms.

In March, Ben filed a lawsuit with Ben & Jerry, accusing Unilever of firing CEO David Stever for his support for the brand’s “social mission.”

More than 51,000 people have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched a war after Hamas launched an attack on the country on October 7, 2023.