Police have clashed with a pro-Palestine protest on a campus in the Netherlands following the occupation of university buildings.
Students at the University of Amsterdam were asked to leave several times, but did not respond.
Earlier today, a protest group said it had occupied university buildings in the Dutch cities of Amsterdam, Groningen and Eindhoven.
In a post on X, Amsterdam police said the university had filed a police report against the protesters for acts of vandalism.
In local media footage, the students can be heard chanting at the police: "We are peaceful, what are you?" and "Shame on you."
The group told reporters that the occupations would continue until the police broke them up and that the protesters would keep returning until the university meets their demands "for transparency (as well as) boycotting and divesting from Israeli institutions."
A spokesperson for the University of Amsterdam (UvA) confirmed the occupation and said it had advised people not affiliated with the protest to leave the building.
The Eindhoven University of Technology confirmed that there were "dozens of students peacefully protesting outside next to ten to 15 tents".
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