Dublin campus encampment erected in proPalestinian protest

AFP | New Delhi

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Students at Ireland's prestigious Trinity College Dublin university manned an on-campus protest yesterday against Israel's actions in Gaza, blocking the entrance to a library housing a world-famous medieval manuscript.

Student activists described the protest, which began Friday, as a "solidarity encampment with Palestine", echoing similar protests on US campuses, as some also joined a Saturday march through the city centre.

Dozens of students pitched tents on one of the main squares at the university, a Dublin tourist attraction, and piled benches in front of a library which houses the renowned ninth century gospel manuscript the Book of Kells.