Tension at Rome university after rectorate occupied. Leftwing students occupy dean's office in protest at links with Israel.
Trouble broke out between students and police when several young people attempted to enter the rectorates. Noemi Di Segni, the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, last week expressed concern over the growing expressions of hatred towards Jews and Israel in Italian universities. The war in Gaza sparked by the October 7 massacres by Hamas has claimed more than 3,000 lives.