New York City police entered the New York University (NYU) campus to make mass arrests of students demanding an Israeli ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

University officials allowed police entry, warning students to clear out encampments set up to block university activities.

Police entered with riot gear to subdue dozens of youths who continued to chant slogans against Israeli attacks on Palestinian territory.

It is the third operation of its kind in recent days in the United States, as students at schools such as Yale University and Columbia University intensified protests in response to the escalating Israeli-Palestinian conflict following a deadly cross-border incursion by Hamas militants into the United States. October 7 and the brutal Israeli response in the controlled Gaza enclave.

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Israeli students at these institutions were concerned for their safety, while some defended the right of Benjamin Netayahu’s government to continue its military response to the attack that killed 1,200 of their countrymen. (Reuters).