Maagdenhuis in Amsterdam occupied by pro-Palestinian group - DutchNews.nl

A group of around 100 pro-Palestinian demonstrators occupied the University of Amsterdam’s Maagdenhuis in Amsterdam on Monday as riot police stepped in to evacuate the premises. Staff and students united in the action group Amsterdam Encampment are demanding that the university sever ties with Israeli universities. The demonstrators put up a banner renaming the Maagdenhuis the Sirin Al-Atta house, after a gynecologist working for the United Nations relief and works agency UNRWRA, who was killed at the Al-Bureij camp in...