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Demonstrators on the campus of Columbia College .Photographer: Alex Kent/Getty Photos
No less than 200 folks have been arrested at UCLA Thursday, bringing the nationwide complete of arrests to greater than 2,000 at dozens of faculty campuses since police cleared an encampment at Columbia College in mid-April, in line with a tally by The Related Press.
Demonstrations and arrests have occurred in virtually each nook of the nation.
However within the final 24 hours, they’ve drawn essentially the most consideration on the College of California, Los Angeles, the place chaotic scenes performed out early Thursday as officers in riot gear surged in opposition to a crowd of demonstrators.
The nationwide campus demonstrations started at Columbia on April 17 to protest Israel’s offensive in Gaza, following Hamas’ lethal assault on southern Israel on October 7.
Militants killed about 1,200 folks, most of them civilians, and took roughly 250 hostages. Vowing to stamp out Hamas, Israel has killed greater than 34,000 Palestinians within the Gaza Strip, in line with the Well being Ministry there.
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First Printed: Might 03 2024 | 6:55 AM IST
