Overview

• Police cleared the occupied magnet laboratory at Radboud University overnight and detained 23 pro‑Palestine demonstrators, who remained in custody Wednesday morning.
• University officials and the mayor cited a serious safety risk at the facility, deploying the bomb disposal unit and riot police under a GRIP‑2 escalation as officers used a grinder to free activists chained at the entrance.
• Commemorations in Amsterdam, The Hague and Utrecht focused on mourning and the demand to free remaining captives, with reporting citing about 48 hostages still in Gaza and roughly 20 believed alive.
• In Amsterdam, attendees gathered on the Dam beside an artist's replica of a Hamas tunnel, where police were present, some counter‑protesters were moved on, and one person was arrested for vandalism.
• The day also saw protests, including a large but peaceful march in Arnhem with more than a thousand participants and a louder demonstration near The Hague’s Hofvijver monitored by police.