CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WNCN) — UNC-Chapel Hill on Sunday continues to be at the center of pro-Palestinian protests in the Triangle.
At least 1,000 people packed Peace and Justice Plaza in Chapel Hill before marching along Franklin Street and then through the UNC campus Sunday afternoon.
Student leaders from UNC’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) led the crowd of students and community members through chants continuing calls for the end of fighting in Gaza.
The march was organized by the same students behind the campus encampment that was broken up by police on April 30 after UNC officials said the tents violated policy.
“I chose to stand next to my friends and to strangers that I don’t know, because I was worried for their safety,” Sylvie, a Ph.D. candidate at UNC, recalled about the night the tents were taken down.
The number of protesters grew Sunday as they began to march in Chapel Hill down Franklin Street. Demonstrators included students from UNC, N.C. State, Duke, and people from all over the Triangle.