Madrid students join a growing number of protest camps across Spain calling for an end to the conflict in Gaza [Video]

STUDENTS in Madrid have become the latest to set up a protest camp to call for an end to the conflict in Gaza. 

The tents were pitched yesterday on the Complutense University’s campus, and saw the demonstrators brave a chilly night in the capital. 

The Madrid students said that they were calling for an end to the Israeli intervention in the Gaza Strip, and were demonstrating in support of the ‘Palestinian people’s right to exist’, according to news agency Europa Press. 

Ahead of the camp-out, students from the university also staged a protest on the campus, chanting: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will conquer!”

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A number of other Madrid universities have signed up to the protest, including the Uned distance-learning university, the Carlos III and the Rey Juan Carlos. 

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