UCC students lead protests against 'scholasticide' in Palestine

All 12 universities in Gaza have been bombed, along with some 200 schools, while more than 4,300 students are among the dead

Students from the Trad Society played at the main quadrangle of University College Cork (UCC), as staff and students joined the national day of action in solidarity with Palestine. Picture: Larry Cummins

Clutching a dead “baby”, a woman wandered barefoot and draped in black through University College Cork (UCC) — an unsettling piece of performance art to protest the slaughter in Gaza.

Above her head, Palestinian flags had been hung in the window of the belltower in UCC’s Quad.