AMSTERDAM: Dutch police have arrested about 32 pro-Palestine students after moving in to remove barricades set up at the University of Amsterdam, where there have been clashes between police and the students since Monday.
Local media reported that police personnel cleared protesters out of an area in front of the University’s Binnengasthuis compound in Amsterdam’s city centre, while protestors also blocked a major road and “threw ammonia at riot police”.
Police claimed that the protesters, who are calling for the UVA to sever all relations with Israel, had been apprehended for “violence, assault, destruction, and incitement”.
These latest arrests mean that more than 169 people have been arrested by police in Amsterdam since Monday.
Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden has said that he will not provide offensive weapons that Israel could use to launch an all-out strike on Rafah in the harshest public comments yet regarding the widely denounced military operation.
“Civilians have been killed in the Gaza Strip as a consequence of those bombs and other ways in which they go after population centres,” Biden said. Gaza’s Health Ministry said that around 34,844 people including women and children have been killed in Israel’s brutal strikes on Gaza. He further said that more than 78,404 people have been wounded in Israeli assaults on Gaza since October 7.
