King’s College London (KCL) has become the first college in the British capital to divest from companies supplying arms and military equipment to Israel, which has been waging a brutal war on the besieged Gaza Strip for the past ten months.

Under pressure from pro-Palestine student protest rallies and the anti-war sentiment across the United Kingdom and the rest of the world formed in the wake of the ongoing war on Gaza, the KCL decided to no longer invest in companies involved in the manufacturing of cluster bombs, land mines and depleted uranium weapons used by Israel’s military.

The divestment entails KCL halting all direct investments in companies like Lockheed Martin, L3Harris Technologies, and Boeing. These companies are prominent military suppliers for Israel, manufacturing cluster bombs, land mines, depleted uranium weapons, and other armaments.

“The university will no longer invest in companies engaged in the production or distribution of controversial weapons,” he added.