Samira Ali, a student protest organiser at Goldsmiths, University of London, said their Gaza solidarity activism has been ongoing for six months and has won important concessions from the university’s management.

“It’s involved protests and walkouts, actions which have included occupations,” Ali told Al Jazeera.

“We are currently in an occupation of the library.

“One of the most seminal things we’ve won is the Palestinian scholarships. Now, this university will provide two extra Palestinian scholarships and one of them will include an undergraduate scholarship.

“We think this is really important considering the total destruction of educational infrastructure in Gaza.

“One of the lecture theatres that we were occupying, we have won that it is going to be renamed after Shireen Abu Akleh [the Al Jazeera journalist killed in the occupied West Bank by Israeli forces].

“To have that recognition of a Palestinian journalist that was murdered by the [Israeli military] and have that memorialised at this university will be amazing and something we are really proud of.”