Students call for peace at pro-Palestinian tent encampment at UNC [Video]

More than 100 people on Friday participated in what they called a “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” in the middle of UNC-Chapel Hill’s campus.

The group of UNC students and community members gathered to call on the university to disclose any investments and stop funding any companies connected to Israel.

“We are protesting our own university’s financial investment in an undisclosed number of firms for Israeli goods and services,” described Sylvie, one of the participants.

Sylvie, a doctoral student pursing a degree in sociology, said she feels the university administration hasn’t adequately responded to demands.

The pro-Palestinian group began in more than two dozen tents at Polk Place around noon on Friday to call for an end to the violence in Gaza and make demands for the university.

The group took down their tents at 1:30 p.m. after conversations with UNC leaders, but protesters remained at the site after 4 p.m.

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