Firework thrown into pro-Palestinian supporters at UCLA

STORY: LAPD confirmed on X that its officers were deployed and on campus "to assist in restoring order."

The UCLA student newspaper Daily Bruin said supporters of Israel had tried to tear down a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the campus.

The Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel by Hamas militants from Gaza, and the ensuing Israeli offensive on the Palestinian enclave, have unleashed the biggest outpouring of U.S. student activism since the anti-racism protests of 2020.