Students taking part at universities including Newcastle and Bristol have described the freezing conditions but also the benefits being offered, including deliveries of free snacks.
Tents have been pitched outside university buildings by protestors who are calling on their universities to divest from Israel in response to its military operation in the Gaza Strip.
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