Campaigners at the Sheffield Campus Coalition for Palestine (SCCP) at a court hearing which will decide whether Sheffield University can clear its pro-Gaza encampment. The coalition revealed in a statement that on 8 July, they received notice that the university filed for a possession order. The hearing on Monday, 15 July. If granted, the university will hire bailiffs to evict them from the campus as soon as the following hearing was adjourned to 23 July. According to the SCPP, the university is "falsely" claiming that because only 15 people are part of the encampment, the camp cannot


Campaigners at the Sheffield Campus Coalition for Palestine (SCCP) at a court hearing which will decide whether Sheffield University can clear its pro-Gaza encampment. The coalition revealed in a statement that on 8 July, they received notice that the university filed for a possession order. The hearing on Monday, 15 July. If granted, the university will hire bailiffs to evict them from the campus as soon as the following hearing was adjourned to 23 July. According to the SCPP, the university is "falsely" claiming that because only 15 people are part of the encampment, the camp cannot represent the views of its students, staff, alumni, or the wider community. The SCPP have been camping outside the university’s Students’ Union building since 1 May in support of the people of Palestine and to hold its university to account for its complicity in Israel’s war on Gaza.


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