Protesters marched in support of Palestine on Monday, one year after Israel began its retaliatory attacks in Gaza.

The rally – hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA, Faculty for Justice in Palestine at UCLA, Graduate Students for Justice in Palestine at UCLA and the Palestine Solidarity Collective at UCLA – began at Dickson Court North around 4:30 p.m. Many protesters wore keffiyehs and masks, chanting “Free, free Palestine” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”

The event occurred exactly one year after the Palestinian political party and militant group Hamas launched its surprise attack on Israel, killing at least 1,200 Israeli citizens and prompting the country to resume its offensive in Gaza, which has since killed at least 41,000 Palestinians, according to ABC News. However, speakers emphasized that the event sought to recognize the deaths of all Palestinians since the beginning of the Israel-Palestine conflict, rather than in just the last year.

“Let us be clear – it has not just been a year,” an organizer for the event said in a speech. “This is about every Palestinian who has been displaced, who has been imprisoned, who has been murdered, every child who dreams of returning home.”

Organizers for SJP declined requests for comment on the march.

Undergraduate Students Association Council President Adam Tfayli and other members of USAC attended the rally. Tfayli said Monday that he attended the rally as an observer and not a participant.

“Myself and my team will be around on campus often seeing how different things play out for campus events,” he said in a written statement Tuesday. “My office is politically neutral, obviously each one of us has and is entitled to their own opinion but the office itself fall out of the realm of picking sides.”

Tfayli added that while students on campus may be divided on the issue, it is important to respect students’ right to express their opinions.

Protesters left the area at 5 p.m., carrying a banner that read “Disclose, divest,” walking first to the Broad Art Center before pausing for Asr – a daily afternoon Muslim prayer.

As protesters marched toward the Broad Art Center, two organizers hung banners on the fourth and fifth floors of the building, reading “76 years of settler colonialism” and “UCPD, KKK, IOF, you’re all the same.”

The march then continued to Murphy Hall, where the offices of UCLA administrators – including Interim Chancellor Darnell Hunt – are located. There, protesters chanted phrases including “Disclose, divest,” “The occupation has got to go” and “Ceasefire now.”

The protest came after the university introduced its new Time, Place and Manner policies. The guidelines restrict protests to new “public expression areas” around Bruin Walk and outside Murphy Hall, with separate rules existing if the administration approves the event 10 days in advance.

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In a written statement to the Daily Bruin, a spokesperson from UCPD stated that the protest violated new TPM guidelines, as it occurred in Dickson Court North and outside the Broad Arts Center – two locations not considered to be public expression areas on campus. The spokesperson added in the statement that protesters refused to relocate to an approved public expression area.

“They were told amplified sound was not allowed in their current area, but if they moved to a designated area for public expression, they could use amplified sound,” the spokesperson said in the statement. “They did not comply.”

The spokesperson also said in the emailed statement that UCPD used a drone in cooperation with a neighboring police agency to monitor the ongoing protest. In September, the UC Board of Regents’ Compliance and Audit Committee voted to approve the allocation of three drones to UCLA – but those drones were not used on Tuesday.

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Several pro-Palestine groups – including the UC Divest Coalition at UCLA – claimed in September that UCPD requested these drones to surveil protesters. However, UC Office of the President spokesperson Stett Holbrook said in an emailed statement that UCPD sought the drones for search and rescue operations, crime scene reconstruction and the acquisition of aerial data.

A separate drone above the UCLA campus was not associated with UCPD.

Before the protest dispersed, an event organizer urged attendees to focus on those suffering in Palestine rather than outside entities attempting to hinder protests – including possible counter-protesters and the UC administration itself.

“Don’t lose sight of what really matters,” they said. “We are not here to get caught up in the noise of Zionists on campus or the repressive tactics that the administration tries to use to silence us.”

Contributing reports by Gabrielle Gillette, Lilly Wellons and Dylan Winward, Daily Bruin staff.