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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Richard Adams and Geneva Abdul

Gaza protest camps at UK universities wind down amid legal action

Tents on a lawn in front of university buildings
The student-led encampment at the the Mile End campus of Queen Mary University of London. Photograph: Teri Pengilley/The Guardian

The student encampments that sprung up at UK campuses, in protest at the war in Gaza, are fading over the summer in the face of hostile university administrators and the waning of numbers and enthusiasm.

Of the 36 encampments in England, Wales and Scotland at the end of May, around a dozen are still active. At many of the remaining sites the protesters are fighting legal battles to stay, including Bristol, London and Birmingham.

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