2024-05-03 23:56:20
Student protests in support of Palestine led to the detention of more than 700 people in the United States.
As Day.Az reports with reference to TASS, The New York Times newspaper reported this.
It is noted that a “new wave of student activism” and demonstrations of protest against Israeli military actions in the Gaza Strip was provoked by the police detention of 108 people during the April 18 dispersal of demonstrators who had set up a tent camp on the territory of Columbia University in New York.
According to the publication, 118 people were detained by law enforcement during the liquidation of a tent camp on the territory of the University of Emerson College in Boston (Massachusetts), 102 – at Northeastern University, which is also located in Boston, 93 – at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles . Dozens of students were detained at the University of Texas, Indiana University in Bloomington, Emory University in Atlanta (Georgia) and Arizona State University.
The arrests also affected Princeton, Yale, New York universities, the University of Minnesota and Ohio State University.
The situation in the Middle East sharply worsened after the infiltration of militants of the radical Palestinian movement Hamas from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory on October 7, 2023, accompanied by the killing of residents of border settlements and the taking of more than 240 hostages. In response, Israel launched a military operation in the Palestinian enclave with the aim of destroying the military and political structures of Hamas and releasing all those abducted. At the end of November 2023, through the mediation of Egypt and Qatar, a temporary humanitarian truce was established, which lasted a week. During this time, according to the Israeli side, they managed to free 110 hostages. On December 1, the ceasefire was violated, hostilities resumed and continue to this day.
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