Pro-Palestine protests taking place on university campuses are "at risk of being interpreted as support for the actions that Hamas committed on October 7th", the chief executive of Universities UK has told Sky News.

Vivienne Stern, who leads the body representing 141 British universities, said that while protests against the war in Gaza have been a "frequent feature of campus life" in the last two years, "protesting on this particular day means something different", and could breach the law.

The prime minister and education secretary both appealed to the public not to protest today, which is the second anniversary of the Hamas terror attacks on Israel that saw over 1,200 people killed and 251 taken hostage.

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