Pro-Palestine protesters lock arms after several demonstrators knocked fences down and opened the MIT encampment back to student protesters during the demonstration. Rallies continue at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, campus now three weeks since the pro-Palestine protesters started an encampment. Student protesters are demanding that MIT divest all involvement from the Israeli military and businesses that have ties with the ongoing war in Gaza. On May 6, 2024, MIT President Sally Kornbluth gave students a 2:30 PM EST deadline to leave the encampment or face school suspension. While a half dozen students remained in the encampment, a rally grew in size outside the fences of the encampment. Police had blocked the entrance of the encampment and were surrounded by protesters, but several demonstrators knocked the fences down, thus opening the encampment back to student protesters to claim again. Meanwhile, nearly a dozen high school students walked out from class today and blocked Massachusetts Avenue and the front steps of MIT's administration building for several hours. (Photo by Vincent Ricci / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)