Pro-Palestinian protesters return to encampment at MIT

SUNNY DAY. YOU WANT TO GET OUTSIDE TOMORROW MAKE THE MOST OF IT CHANGES FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK WHICH INCLUDES RAIN RETURNING AS WELL AS COOLER TEMPERATURES THE FIRST ROUND OF RAIN WILL BE ROLLING IN HERE AS WE GET AROUND MIDMORNING ON WEDNESDAY SOME THUNDERSTORMS WILL TAKE A LOOK AT THAT COMING UP. >>> PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS AT MIT REFUSING TO GIVE UP GROUND BREAKING THROUGH A BARRICADE TO RETURN TO THEIR ENCAMPMENT DESPITE THE UNIVERSITY'S DEMAND THAT THEY CLEAR OUT THIS AFTERNOON. >>> AND EGYPTIAN OFFICIALS SAYS ISRAELI TANKS HAVE ROLLED INTO RAFAH WHILE ISRAEL SAYS IT'S LAUNCHING AIRSTRIKES ON HAMAS TARGETS IN THAT REGION WHICH HAS BEEN SHELTERING CIVILIANS WHO ALREADY FLED THE WAR IN THE NORTH. AND AT THIS HOUR THERE IS A POTENTIAL CEASE-FIRE DEAL ON THE TABLE. HUMANITARIAN WORKERS WARN THAT AN ASSAULT IN RAFAH WOULD BE DISASTROUS, FURTHER FUELING THE COLLEGE PROTESTERS DEMANDS FOR PEACE. WE HAVE COVERS TONIGHT OF THE DEVELOPMENTS ABROAD AND HERE AT HOME AND WE START WITH BRANDON TRUITT WHO IS AT MIT. >> Reporter: DAVID AND LISA THESE PROTESTERS ACTUALLY HAD VOLUNTARILY CLEARED OUT OF THIS ENCAMPMENT BY THE DEADLINE THAT WAS SET BY THE UNIVERSITY BUT AS THE PROTESTS ON THE PERIMETER OF THE ENCAMPMENTS STARTED TO GROW THEY ULTIMATELY JUMPED THE FENCE AND RETOOK THEIR ENCAMPMENT. >> THIS IS THE MOMENT PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS BROKE THROUGH THE BARRICADES THEY HAVE BEEN SURROUNDING THE ENCAMPMENT THAT HAS BEEN SET UP HERE FOR MORE THAN TWO WEEKS. MIT PRESIDENT SALLY ORDERED THEM TO CLEAR THE AREA BY 2:30 PM MONDAY AFTERNOON CITING SAFETY CONCERNS AND SAYS THE OPINIONS OF ONE SIDE ARE STEPPING ON THE RIGHTS OF THE OTHER. CALLING THE SITUATION INHERENTLY HIGHLY UNSTABLE BUT BY 6 PM THE UNIVERSITY SAYS ONE PERSON JUMPED THE FENCE AND CAUSED A SURGE, STUDENTS RIGHT BACK WHERE THEY STARTED. >> WHAT HAPPENS NEXT IS PURELY THE DECISION OF THE MIT ADMINISTRATION. >> THREATENING DISCIPLINARY ACTION IF PROTESTERS DIDN'T LEAVE THAT INCLUDES SUSPENSION, THE GROUP HAS BEEN ASKING MIT TO DIVEST FROM ISRAELI TIED BUSINESS AND SAY THEY ARE PREPARED TO STAY. >> WE NO LONGER WANT TO STAND BY AS OUR UNIVERSITY IS COMPLICIT IN THE MURDER OF OVER 40,000 PEOPLE IN GAZA. >> JUST ACROSS THE QUAD A GROUP OF YOUNGER PROTESTERS TRIED TO MAKE THEIR WAY INTO A CAMPUS BUILDING. POLICE STOPPED THEM BUT THE GROUP SET UP SHOP IN THE MIDDLE OF MASS AVENUE DURING THE HEIGHT OF THE EVENING COMMUTE. UNIVERSITY SAYS THEY WERE BROUGHT HERE DUE TO A CALL ON SOCIAL MEDIA WE SPOKE TO ONE WITH HER PARENTS PERMISSION. >> WE ARE HERE TO SHOW OUR SUPPORT FOR ENCAMPMENTS AND DEMAND THAT UNIVERSITIES LISTEN TO THEIR STUDENTS DEMANDS. >> THERE WAS A SMALL GROUP OF PRO-ISRAEL PROTESTERS THAT WERE SURROUNDED BY CAMERAS AND MIT POLICE THAT SEVERELY OUTNUMBERED BY THOSE ON THE OTHER SIDE. >> I DON'T HEAR ANY WORDS COMING FROM PEOPLE OVER HERE TALKING ABOUT WHAT CAUSED THIS PARTICULAR ROUND OF THE WAR IN THE FIRST PLACE WHICH WAS HAMAS BREAKING THE CEASE-FIRE. >> AND I AM TOLD THAT SOME FACULTY ACTUALLY MESSAGED JEWISH STUDENTS ON CAMPUS AND ASKED THEM TO AVOID THIS AREA THIS AFTERNOON THEY WERE CONCERNED FOR THEIR SAFETY.

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Length: 3min 9sec (189 seconds)

Published: Tue May 07 2024