By EFE
May 23, 2024, 9:35 PM EDT
Los Angeles (USA), May 23 (EFE).- The riot police dismantled this Thursday afternoon a new pro-Palestinian camp that had been erected hours before on the campus of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), where 200 students were arrested a few weeks ago.
In the morning, several students installed a wooden barricade in one of the squares at UCLA, considered one of the most important educational institutions on the West Coast of the United States.
To prevent the protest from growing, school police officers surrounded the small camp, but other students showed their support with chants and came forward to bring water to the protesters.
University officials warned that law enforcement was prepared to arrest people involved in the protest.
Authorities declared the camp an ‘unlawful assembly’ and Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers proceeded to dismantle it.
There were minor clashes between police and protesters, but it has not been confirmed if anyone was arrested.
The camp comes the same day that UCLA Chancellor Gene Block testified at a congressional hearing about possible anti-Semitism on campus.
Block has been the target of criticism after on May 2 he allowed the police to arrest at least 200 protesters from the camp that pro-Palestinian students had set up in front of the Powell library and which was attacked several times by groups opposed to the concentration before the violent eviction.
On the other side of the country, protests have also continued. This morning hundreds of Harvard students and faculty left the graduation ceremony in support of Palestine and in support of the 15 students who had their degrees withheld for participating in demonstrations calling for an end to the war in the Gaza Strip .
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