The scope of student protests against the war in Gaza expanded in many European and American universities, while the US capital authorities began dismantling the camps of pro-Palestine protesters on the campus of George Washington University, and arrested dozens of them.

In Britain, Cambridge University students continue for the third day their open sit-in in support of Palestine and in rejection of what they describe as their university’s complicity in Israeli war crimes against the Palestinian people.

The protesters demand that the investments hidden by the university be revealed, as they put it, the withdrawal of investments in companies linked to Israel, and the development of a new ethical investment policy.

He called on university students to support Palestinian students, by allocating student scholarships and contributing to rebuilding the universities of the Gaza Strip.

The scope of the sit-in organized by Oxford University students in solidarity with the residents of the Gaza Strip also expanded, as new students joined it on its third day.

The students say they are determined to continue their protest until the university administration meets their demands to stop investments with companies that help what they describe as a genocidal regime in Israel.

Students at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London also continue their sit-in on campus for the third day in a row in solidarity with Palestine and the residents of the Gaza Strip.

University students set up their tents in Her Highness Square in the areas liberated for Gaza. The students accuse their university of complicity in the Israeli war of genocide in Gaza and the ongoing occupation of the Palestinian territories.

The University of London students pledged to continue their open sit-in until the university responds to their demands to end all financial and academic ties with institutions and companies that support Israeli occupation.

In this context, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will hold a meeting with university presidents - tomorrow, Thursday - after pro-Palestine student sit-ins reached about 15 university campuses in the United Kingdom.

France, Denmark and Norway

In France, students of the Sorbonne University organized a demonstration in front of the Paris municipal headquarters demanding the release of 88 students who were arrested by the police yesterday evening after they dispersed a sit-in organized by students supporting the Palestinian cause in the stadiums of the Sorbonne University, in order to force the university administration to sever all academic ties with its Israeli counterparts.

The demonstrators chanted slogans accusing French university administrations of colluding with Israel in its crimes against the Palestinian people. They also chanted slogans accusing the West of betraying the values of justice and democracy and being involved with Israel in what they described as the crime of genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank.

The University of Copenhagen in Denmark also witnessed protests against the war on Gaza.

In neighboring Norway, students at the universities of Oslo, Bergen and southern Norway organized protests denouncing the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip. The students set up their tents at the entrance to the main building of the University of Oslo and in front of the headquarters of the student parliament participating in the protests and demanded a comprehensive international boycott of Israeli universities.

Spain, Belgium and Germany

In Spain, students at the University of Malaga organized a protest, in support of the student movement across the world in support of Gaza and to demand an end to the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip. The students raised Palestinian flags and chanted slogans demanding an end to the genocide crimes committed by the Israeli army in Gaza.

For a week, hundreds of Spanish students have been holding a sit-in at the universities of the provinces of Albasque, Navarre, Aragon, Andalusia and Catalonia in support of the Palestinians and against the war launched by Israel in the Gaza Strip.

In Madrid, a number of students staged a sit-in and set up tents at the entrance to the Complutense university complex to demand an end to the war on Gaza.

Students at Ghent University in Belgium continue their sit-in to demand severing ties with Israeli institutions and institutes and stopping the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip.

The sit-in organizers said that they decided to turn their sit-in into an open sit-in to escalate and put pressure on the university’s board of directors, which, as they say, refused to disclose the form of the current relationship with Israel.

German police also broke up a student sit-in in support of Palestine at the Free University of Berlin. The university campus witnessed protests against the genocide in Gaza against the Palestinians. The students called for an end to the export of weapons to Israel and called on the German government to pressure Israel to stop the war.

Students arrested at George Washington University

In the US capital, authorities said that police began dismantling the camps of pro-Palestine protesters on the George Washington University campus early Thursday, and arrested a number of them.

This came hours before the Metropolitan Police Chief and the Mayor of Washington testified before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.

The Mayor of Washington confirmed in a press conference that the decision to end the sit-ins at George Washington University has nothing to do with politics.

Students at New York University's College of Art and Fashion Design joined the sit-ins in solidarity with Gaza, where the American police arrested a number of students while trying to remove a camp they had set up in front of the university.

Activists documented police officers assaulting some students during their arrest, including a journalist. The students tried to confront the police violence by setting up a human chain in front of them, and other demonstrators walked through the city streets to join them after the police arrived.

Brazil

Students at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil began an open sit-in on the university campus to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, and an end to what they described as genocide against the Palestinian people.

The protesters set up tents inside the university campus and raised Palestinian flags and slogans in support of the university movement in the United States and various countries of the world.

The students called on other universities to participate in the movement and activate student work in support of the Palestinian cause in various Brazilian universities and in Latin American countries.