2024-05-03 05:31:34
Tensions arose at a pro-Palestinian student camp at the University of Sydney in Australia, as 200 pro-Israeli counter-protesters showed up there on Friday, local media reported.
Pro-Palestinian students have erected around 70 tents in the university grounds over the past ten days, in a protest once morest the Israeli offensive in Gaza. The approach is similar to what is observed on American campuses, or in France, Canada or Mexico.
On Friday morning, 200 counter-protesters displaying Israeli flags approached the group, to show their support for Jewish students and employees at the university, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
The counter-protesters marched peacefully along University Avenue before stopping in front of a line of security guards. They did not try to provoke the people in the camp, regarding twenty meters away. This, however, created tension, and the group of counter-protesters was dispersed by security personnel.
The camp was established last Tuesday, and the initiative was later taken up by students from other Australian universities, in Brisbane, Melbourne and Canberra.
In the capital, around 40 protesters have been camping on the campus of the Australian National University (ANU) for three days as temperatures plummeted to near zero degrees at night. Pro-Palestinian students planted an olive tree at their camp, The Guardian also reports.
No arrests linked to these student camps have taken place in Australia.
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