Clash of Pro-Palestinian and Pro-Israeli Demonstrators Paralyzes UCLA

On May 1st, a violent clash erupted between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli demonstrators at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), resulting in hours of unrest and disrupting campus operations. Scuffles and fights broke out, with protesters engaging in fistfights, shoving, kicking, and using sticks to assault one another. Riot gear-clad officers stormed Hamilton Hall, which had been occupied by pro-Palestinian protesters, to quell the disturbance. Over 1,600 people have been arrested in pro-Palestine campus protests in the past two weeks, including 282 arrests made on Tuesday night at Columbia University and City College New York.

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