Posts Misrepresent Raising of Palestinian Flags at Harvard

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Quick Take

Protesters against the war in Gaza raised three Palestinian flags on the Harvard University campus on April 27. Social media posts misleadingly claimed the university “replaced the American flag with the Palestinian flag.” The Palestinian flags were removed by Harvard staff shortly after they were raised by the protesters.

Full Story

The rising toll of the war in the Gaza Strip, which has sparked student protests on university campuses across the United States. About 1,200 Israelis were killed in the initial attack, about 250 people were and more than 250 Israeli soldiers have died in the ensuing war. In Gaza, more than 33,700 Palestinians have died as a result of retaliatory strikes by Israeli forces as of April 15,