Student demonstrators led pro-Palestinian chants at Florida International University on Thursday afternoon, demanding the university divest from contracts and funding agreements with contractors who do business with Israel’s military.

The demonstrators passed out exactly 67 red paper flowers — each representing over a thousand Palestinian casualties two years after the war broke out between Hamas and Israel in Gaza. At least 67,160 Palestinians have been killed, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

The protest immediately followed the brokerage of another ceasefire between Israel and Hamas militants — and potentially an end to the two-year-old conflict.

The war began Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel and killed around 1,200 people, mostly civilians, a

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