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UCLA pro-Palestinian protesters say their encampment was attacked as university "did nothing"

From CNN's Emma Tucker

Pro-Palestinian protesters on the University of California, Los Angeles, campus are accusing the school of doing "nothing" to stop an attack on their encampment Tuesday night, according to Vincent Doehr, a spokesperson for the pro-Palestinian encampment on campus.

Police arrived on the UCLA campus after a violent confrontation broke out between pro-Palestinian protesters and Israel supporters. Doehr, who is also a PhD student at UCLA’s Department of Political Science, said the encampment was attacked with “weapons such as pepper spray, mace, boards, bricks, fireworks — not firecrackers, fireworks.”

In an interview with CNN, Doehr described the events of Tuesday night as an attack “that the university did nothing to stop.” He said that as the clashes unfolded, "the police the university had hired, the private security guards, stared and watched as this happened despite us warning the (University of California) repeatedly that this was likely to happen.” 

The university has said medical teams and police were “immediately” called to the scene when the clashes broke out.

“Horrific acts of violence occurred at the encampment tonight and we immediately called law enforcement for mutual aid support. The fire department and medical personnel are on the scene. We are sickened by this senseless violence and it must end,” Mary Osako, vice chancellor for UCLA strategic communications, said in a statement, according to the Daily Bruin, UCLA's student newspaper.

Doehr said he is unsure how many of the students who were injured during the clashes are faring.