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Pro-Palestine protesters march to a new encampment in photos

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Pro-Palestine protesters hold figures representing children killed in Gaza, during a demonstration at Philadelphia City Hall on Saturday, May 18, 2024.
Pro-Palestine protesters hold figures representing children killed in Gaza, during a demonstration at Philadelphia City Hall on Saturday, May 18, 2024.Read moreCharles Fox / Staff Photographer

Amid steady rainfall, hundreds marched from Center City to University City to commemorate the expulsion of Palestinians during the 1948 “Nakba” after the founding of Israel. While the march paused to block traffic at 33rd and Market Streets, a group of protesters began setting up tents on Drexel’s nearby Academic Quadrangle, also known as the Korman Family Quad.

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