French police clear protest encampment at Sorbonne University

Police forcefully cleared dozens of protesters camped out in Sorbonne University in Paris on Monday to protest against Israel's war on Gaza, a student there told Reuters.

It came three days after protests at Sciences Po university in the French capital. 

"We have every reason, like in Yale, in Columbia, in Sciences Po ... to condemn what we can see is happening," the student said outside the gates of the Sorbonne.

The university closed its buildings for the day during the peaceful protests.