Students could be heard chanting: 'We are peaceful, what are you?' and 'shame on you' as police used shields and batons to control the crowds.
Police in Amsterdam have moved in to end a pro-Palestinian protest after demonstrators occupied university buildings. Footage from the Dutch capital showed a line of police in riot gear holding back demonstrators, some of whom could be seen making peace signs with their hands while others held signs. Students could be heard chanting: 'We are peaceful, what are you?' and 'shame on you' in local media footage.
It estimated that around a thousand students and employees had taken part in a 'national walkout' during which they walked out of a lecture hall at 11 o'clock and gathered on the Roeterseiland campus. The university said it had advised people not affiliated with the protest to leave the building.
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