LOS ANGELES, June 11 (Xinhua) -- Pro-Palestinian protesters clashed with police on Monday at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the United States, after establishing a third campus encampment lately.

The protesters set up tents and barricades on the western end of the university's Dickson Plaza Wednesday afternoon, reported Daily Bruin, the university's student newspaper.

Protesters marched on campus carrying fake bloody mummies and body parts while listing the names of Palestinians who have died in the current Palestinian-Israeli conflict, chanting: "We will honor all our martyrs," said the report.

Local television pictures showed that protesters dyed the water in a campus fountain red.

The demonstration was organized by the Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA. The organization called on people to join the protest "to bear witness to over 46,000 Palestinians who have been martyred or buried under the rubble" in a post on Instagram.

"Palestinians under occupation continue to remind us that funerals are places of protest. The Palestinian people continually remind us that grief and rage are actionable," said the post, adding that "our grief is not one that debilitates us, but rather it is our driving force."

Campus police and security responded to the area, and the Los Angeles Police Department later declared a tactical alert, according to local KABC television station.

Orders were issued multiple times for the protesters to disperse, and several clashes between officers and protesters broke out, reported the news outlet.

After nightfall, hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters stood in front of at least 50 police officers from multiple law enforcement agencies outside Dodd Hall, a historic academic building, according to a Daily Bruin post on social media X.

Protesters outside Dodd Hall chanted, "By the thousands, by the millions, we are all Palestinians," Daily Bruin said in another post.

"Police have led more than 15 detainees into Dodd Hall," the student newspaper stated.

Over 200 pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested on May 2 as police moved to dismantle an encampment at UCLA. On May 23, a group of protesters once briefly established a second encampment on campus before police moved in to disband the efforts.

Hundreds of UC faculty and staff have been calling on Gene Block, chancellor of UCLA, to resign over the university's response to pro-Palestinian protests on campus.

UC's controversial response to pro-Palestinian protests had led to a rolling strike as academic workers at six of UC's 10 system-wide campuses walked off the job.

The strike by United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 4811, which represents 48,000 academic workers across the UC system, was ordered to pause by a judge on Friday after UC filed a lawsuit and requested injunctive relief earlier last week against UAW for breach of contract. UAW Local 4811 vowed in a statement that the union is prepared to keep defending its rights in a "long fight." Enditem

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