This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.On the 17th day of their pro-Palestine encampment, May 10, University of Pennsylvania students alerted each other that riot police may be coming to dismantle it. One of those who got an alert was Filipina sophomore Eliana Atienza.
She joined earlier protests for Palestine following the October 2023 attack from Palestinian group Hamas that prompted Israel to retaliate in hostile aggression, which led to the deaths of over Eliana believes that the reason why people are full of anger and hate is because “what we’re doing is working, and it has power.”In the weeks leading up to May 10, Eliana helped organize the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Penn. This is only one of the numerousIn encampment demonstrations, students set up tents and express messages of solidarity and demands through programs and signs.
In the day-to-day, everyone was invited to come and eat. Eliana said it was the most Palestinian food she had had in her entire life. Students balanced their academics with protesting, running to take exams and coming back to the encampment. “It felt like a scene out of a war movie. By 5:30 am, they had set up in front of our encampment – the same encampment where we sang a lot of songs, we did a lot of art, where we did a lot of poetry, ate a lot of food. They said, you have to leave now, leave in two minutes, or else get arrested,” she said.“Our community has been under threat and our campus disrupted for too long,” the Penn executives said. “Passion for a cause cannot supersede the safety and operations of our University.
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