Chancellor Julio Frenk said in a campuswide message the decision by the UCLA Office of Student Conduct was an interim suspension while internal judicial procedures over the groups — Students for Justice in Palestine and Graduate Students for Justice in Palestine — took place.

The college issued suspensions to eight students over their encampment in the college's student union, which organizers concluded Monday evening after reaching an 'understanding' with administrators.

The protesters demanded the college administration condemn Israel’s mass destruction of educational buildings in Gaza.