Police in the US arrested students at an encampment set up at the University of California, Irvine in support of a ceasefire in Gaza. This comes after hundreds of students closed off a lecture hall on the campus on Wednesday.

The university is one of many across the country where protesters have been demanding that institutions divest from Israeli companies.

Students at the University of Florida in Gainesville have also been demonstrating against the onslaught in Gaza, ignoring the university’s orders not to do so.

Al Jazeera’s Rob Reynolds and Alan Fisher report from the US.

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