"The Los Angeles Police Department is clearing out the center of UCP [University Park Campus]; if you are in the center of campus please leave; those who do not leave may be subject to arrest," university officials said in a message posted on social media and cited by the Spanish news agency Efe.

This second encampment was set up after the eviction of a first protest on April 24, in which more than 90 people were arrested.

Tensions escalated at this private university when the institution's president, Carol Folt, decided in mid-April to cancel the speech by the university's top student at the graduation ceremony, Muslim Asna Tabassum, for alleged security reasons.

She then ended up cancelling the entire ceremony, which was to be held on May 10 with more than 65,000 participants at the Los Angeles Coliseum stadium, but backed down and maintained the event, albeit with reinforced security.

Last week, the president said that "freedom of expression and assembly does not include the right to obstruct equal access to campus, damage property, or incite harassment, violence, or threats. "

The eviction of the protest camp at USC comes after police disbanded the camp at the University of California, also in Los Angeles, on Thursday night, where many students resisted and 200 of them ended up being arrested.

Several pro-Palestine protests have been held at various public and private American universities, but they have been dismantled by police, who allege that they promote anti-Semitism, in police operations in which more than 2,500 American students have been arrested.

The demonstrators are protesting the United States' support for Israel's offensive on the Gaza Strip and are demanding that universities cut any ties with institutions linked to Israel.

On Saturday, police removed tents and arrested about 25 people at a protest at the University of Virginia, at the same time that dozens of students interrupted the University of Michigan's graduation ceremony with pro-Palestine chants.

The student movement against the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip that began about two weeks ago on American campuses continues to spread around the world.

Nearly 2,300 young people have already been arrested in the protests in the US, which are reminiscent of the protests against the Vietnam War in the late 1960s.

From Canada to Australia, through Europe, students from various countries have joined the protests.

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