Students have set up encampments in universities across continent as they call for ceasefire in Israel-Gaza war
Students and employees at the University of Amsterdam call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war amid campus protests across Europe.Students and employees at the University of Amsterdam call for a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war amid campus protests across Europe.over the Gaza war have spread across Europe, sparking clashes and arrests as new demonstrations broke out in the Netherlands, Germany, France, Switzerland and Austria.
About 50 demonstrators were also protesting on Tuesday outside the library in Utrecht University and a few dozen at the Technical University of Delft, according to local news agency ANP.Police officers detain a protester as they try to dismantle a pro-Palestine protest camp at the Free University of Berlin on Tuesday.
Earlier, at Berlin’s Free University, police cleared a demonstration after up to 80 people erected a protest camp in a courtyard of the campus. The protesters, some of whom wore the keffiyeh scarf that has long been a symbol of the Palestinian cause, sat in front of tents and waved banners. In Paris, police on Tuesday twice intervened at Paris’s prestigious Sciences Po university to disperse about 20 students who had barricaded themselves in the university’s main hall.
In Austria, dozens of protesters have been camped on the campus of Vienna University, putting up tents and stringing up banners since late on Thursday.and protests taken place at universities in other European countries over the past weeks including Ireland, Finland, Denmark, Italy, Spain and the UK.
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