Police Yet to Receive Formal Trespass Complaint Against Pro-Palestinian Student Encampment

Student activists have set up encampments across Australia’s major universities in solidarity with the US movement supporting Palestine.

Pro-Palestinian students hold a sit-in in Melbourne on May 15, 2024 at Melbourne University's Arts West building, which the students have temporarily renamed as "Mahmoud's Hall" after Mahmoud Al Haq, a prospective University of Melbourne student, who died in Gaza. (Photo by Martin KEEP / AFP) Photo by MARTIN KEEP/AFP via Getty Images

Victorian Police continue to monitor the situation at the University of Melbourne after three days of protests from pro-Palestinian student activists.

Tents have been set up inside the Arts West building as students continued to camp on May 17 with deck chairs, masks, and signs that read: “Free Gaza”, “Zionism is racism,” and “ceasefire now.”