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The Hague: Europe and the Arabs 
Pro-Palestinian protests continue in Dutch universities, and according to media reports this Wednesday morning, students are occupying the faculty building at Maastricht University, demanding attention to three hunger strikers. Other universities also witnessed other forms of expression of solidarity with the Palestinians.  
According to what the Volkskrant newspaper published on its website, protests against the war in Gaza are taking place throughout Europe and in cities in Asia, often in universities. In the Netherlands, procedures take place in institutions across the country for two weeks.   The wave of protests came from the United States, where students from leading universities have been protesting for weeks against American support for Israel on university campuses.   At the Dutch University of Maastricht, according to what local media reported from the Dutch News Agency, students are occupying the faculty building at Maastricht University, and demanding attention to three hunger strikers. She added, “Dozens of pro-Palestinian students occupied the building of the Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences at Maastricht University in Groote Gracht on Wednesday morning. They commented banners and chanted slogans from the balcony.
Students are angry that UM's executive board has not yet made a decision on severing ties with Israel. They blame the executive council for these three students who started a hunger strike seven days ago.
'This is completely unacceptable. “We will not allow our students to go hungry and we will not allow our university to remain complicit in this genocide,” the activists said in a statement. 
Last Monday, the protesting students set up a tent in the college garden. UM allowed them to stay there on the condition that they remain silent and not cause any destruction. They also occupied the same building on Wednesday.
A university spokesman said they would wait and see how the case develops. UM declared the building closed and no research or teaching was being conducted, the spokesman said. The police have been informed. "As far as we are concerned, education and research must resume as soon as possible," he said. On the other hand, yesterday, Tuesday, Dutch media reported that although there were protests in Amsterdam in support of the Palestinians, four hundred students and employees at UVA University “Amsterdam” were distancing themselves from the pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
"Several hundred staff and students at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have distanced themselves from the pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus in recent weeks in a petition," De Volkskrant said. About 350 staff and fifty students signed the petition, which was published on the opinion page of the university magazine Folia.
In recent weeks, several university colleges have become the scene of pro-Palestinian demonstrations. The demonstrators, who include students and staff at the UvA, are demanding that the university sever all ties with Israel. Riot police moved several times after the demonstrations got out of control. One protester was sentenced to two months in prison, one of which was conditional.
“The occupiers claim to speak on behalf of students and staff, but they do not represent us,” the petition said. The signatories also do not hold the UvA responsible for the violence that occurred during the protests. They also wrote that they support "peaceful demonstrations condemning the violence of Hamas and the violence of the Israeli army." The petition signers concluded by saying that all students and staff are welcome at the UvA.
Two days ago, on Monday, Radboud University students held a second protest camp under the administrators' window
A group of students from Radboud University in Nijmegen set up a second protest camp on Monday afternoon next to the Berchmannianum, the building in which the university's executive board is located. In this way, the protesting students hope to confront administrators “at any time of the day with our protest and the genocide in Gaza,” according to a spokesman for the student protest in Nijmegen.
The new tent camp is an addition to the first camp that was held last week on the grass in front of the Maria Montessori building. According to the students, both camps will remain as they are “until the university cuts its ties with Israeli universities and institutes.”
Other Dutch universities witnessed camps, protests and sit-ins to express solidarity with the Palestinians.