Nineteen Brown University students are on a hunger strike, with an aim toward forcing a divestment vote.
The students are calling on the university Board of Fellow and Board of Trustees to divest 6-point-6-billion dollars in endowment from companies they charge profit from human rights abuses in Palestine.
The Gaza Health Ministry says nearly 27-thousand residents have died since the war with Israel began, and UNICEF figures show 70-percent of the fatalities are children.
Brown has divested itself of certain assets in the past, but university President Christina Paxson has said the endowment is not a political instrument.
The meetings are set to end Friday.
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