Police arrest hundreds of Gaza protesters at New York universities

Police arrested almost 300 pro-Palestine protesters on Tuesday at the City College of New York and Columbia University, where students set up encampments and barricaded themselves in university buildings. There was a large police presence at the New York campuses before they entered and broke up the encampments. Demonstrations have swept US universities, as students demand their institutions sever links with Israeli companies and universities and call for an end to Israel’s assault on Gaza, where more than 30,000 people have been killed