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Police remove pro-Palestinian students from Paris’s Sciences Po university

Protesters flash the sign of victory as they are escorted away by French police during the evacuation of a pro-Palestine protest at Sciences Po university in Paris [Miguel Medina/AFP]

French police officers entered the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) in Paris and removed pro-Palestinian student activists who had occupied its buildings to protest Israel’s war on Gaza.

Reporting from the French capital, Al Jazeera’s Natacha Butler said that police on Friday “moved in” into one of the buildings and removed more than 50 students who were staging a sit-in, including some who had begun a hunger strike.

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