Israel-Gaza war protests spread to more universities across US
Voice of America
George Washington University students set tents in the campus during a pro-Palestinian protest against the Israel-Hamas war, April 25, 2024, in Washington. A sign calling attention to the conflict in Gaza rests against a tent, April 25, 2024, at an encampment on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus, in Cambridge, Mass.
What began last week at Columbia University, where students refused to end their protests against Israel’s war in Gaza despite pushback from the New York school and arrests by police, has spread across the country. Students at various college campuses are staging similar demonstrations that are also being met with police response.
A man walks next to a silhouetted Israeli soldier holding a rifle and posters of hostages kidnapped during the deadly October 7 attack by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas from Gaza, at Dizengoff Square, in Tel Aviv, Israel, May 5, 2024. A Palestinian child transporting pieces of wood walks past a building destroyed by Israeli bombardment in Gaza City on May 3, 2024.
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