Students started this week pro-Palestinian camps at universities in British cities Cambridge and Oxfordin protest against the war in the Gaza Strip.

British media reported that around c.forty tents They stood in front of King’s College, one of the campuses of the University of Cambridge, with posters such as “Sell Now”regarding the demand to end relations with institutions that finance Israel.

For their part, protesters stood in front of the Oxford Natural History Museum with Palestinian flags above tents in the so-called “Gaza solidarity camps.”

In response to these protests, the Cambridge and Oxford sections of the University and College Union – UK university centers similar to campuses – expressed their support for the holidaymakers in a statement.

“We call on both universities to take immediate action in response to requests from staff and students termination of investments and cooperation with companies or academic institutions that finance and supply weapons to Israel“, they emphasized.

Since last week several British universities they created several pro-Palestinian camps in opposition to the war in the Gaza Strip.

The first of them was installed at the end of April at the University of Warwick in the English city of Coventry, and was followed, according to organizers, in Bristol, Sheffield, Manchester, Leeds and Newcastle.

These protests They are repeated in different countriesamong them Spainwhere this Saturday students mastered the interior of the faculty University of Valencia in the face of what they condemn as institutional neglect.