Anti-Israel protesters set up a new encampment on the UCLA campus on Monday, with police providing security near the site.
Protesters pitched tents at Dixon Plaza, the site of an encampment that lasted for more than a week in April and May before police cleared the area and arrested more than 200 people. Fox 11.
Protesters were also seen carrying fake bloody corpses and body parts, the media reported.
“We honor all our martyrs,” protesters chanted the names of Palestinians killed in the war in Gaza. Daily Bruin Campus newspaper.
During the protest, demonstrators stood at the top of the Janss Stairs leading to the square, blocking people from entering the square, Fox 11 reported.
University police and campus security were on scene and used bicycles as barricades to keep additional protesters from entering the area, Fox 11 reported.
Protesters were reportedly told to disperse multiple times. ABC7 No. 7.
Los Angeles Police also responded to the campus and eventually issued a tactical alert.
Several clashes broke out between protesters and police on campus Monday, with at least one security guard injured and treated for injuries, ABC7 reported.
According to the Daily Bruin, campus police detained Undergraduate Student Association Council President Adam Tofeili shortly before 4 p.m.
The L.A.P.D. KNX News Twenty-seven protesters were arrested by campus police during the clashes behind Dodd Hall.
The protest dispersed around midnight, according to KNX news agency.
Fox News Digital reached out to campus police and the Los Angeles Police Department, but neither agency immediately responded.
This comes amid protests at various universities in California and across the U.S. amid the ongoing Middle East war between Hamas terrorists and Israeli forces that began following an Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on the Jewish state, which prompted Israeli military retaliation.
Protesters are calling on the university to sever all business ties with Israel.
