<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Students from the University of Oxford continued an encampment Friday for a fifth day in solidarity with the Gaza Strip to demand full divestment from Israel and a boycott of Israel-linked companies.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Students have attended the encampment with dozens of tents outside the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford where people from different backgrounds are welcomed.</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">They continued protesting in an atmosphere of solidarity at the area where congressional Friday prayers were performed with the attendance of many.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Along with a prayer room, the encampment also includes a medical tent, snack area and meeting points, with many Palestinian flags and signs. One read: “Generation after generation, until total liberation.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There is also a media room named after female Palestinian journalists killed by Israeli attacks and a memorial library, named after Refaat Alareer, a prominent Palestinian professor, poet and writer, who was killed in an airstrike in Gaza in December.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Despite Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s recent statement that urged university administrators to protect Jewish students from “harassment” and “anti-semitic abuse” at campuses, Jewish students are among attendees at the Oxford protest. According to media reports</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd/fas</div>