More than two dozen pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested on Monday night at the University of Washington in Seattle after they occupied an engineering building and set dumpsters on fire.

The protest group, called Super UW, occupied the Interdisciplinary Engineering Building to demand that the university sever its ties with Boeing, as the aerospace company has military contracts which the students say “are used by Israel in their US-funded genocide of Palestinian people”.

“UW students want Boeing off our campus,” the group wrote on Facebook on Monday.

Boeing notably gave the school a $10m donation to build the Interdisciplinary Engineering Building in 2022.

Officers with Washington state patrol’s rapid deployment teams along with campus police and Seattle police broke up the occupation of the university’s engineering building, a Washington state patrol spokesperson told CNN.