Berkeley students set up tents and protest in solidarity with other universities

(23 Apr 2024)
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Berkeley, California - 23 April 2024
1. Wide of people gathering outside tents to protest
2. Various of "UC you have blood on your hands" sign
3. Various of people gathering outside tents to protest
STORYLINE:
Dozens of students gathered outside Sproul Hall on the UC Berkeley campus to protest against the Israel-Hamas war.
About 20 tents were setup around the traditional area for campus protests.
These demonstrations are in solidarity with other protest at university campuses in the United States.
Columbia canceled in-person classes, dozens of protesters were arrested at New York University and Yale, and the gates to Harvard Yard were closed to the public Monday as some of the most prestigious U.S. universities sought to defuse campus tensions over Israel’s war with Hamas.
More than 100 pro-Palestinian demonstrators who had camped out on Columbia’s green were arrested last week, and similar encampments have sprouted up at universities around the country as schools struggle with where to draw the line between allowing free expression while maintaining safe and inclusive campuses.
Protests have roiled many college campuses since Hamas’ deadly attack on southern Israel, when militants killed about 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and took roughly 250 hostages. During the ensuing war, Israel has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, according to the local health ministry, which doesn’t distinguish between combatants and non-combatants but says at least two-thirds of the dead are children and women.
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