RELATED: New York City police officers entered the grounds of Columbia University on Tuesday night to arrest and disperse pro-Palestinian protesters who took over a campus building nearly 24 hours earlier and have occupied a tent camp at the Ivy League school for nearly two weeks. Live television images showed helmeted police in tactical gear entering the elite campus in upper Manhattan, which has been the focal point of student protests that have spread to dozens of schools across the U.S.
Campus police are at the scene of the protest and continue to monitor it. Western is also consulting with London police, which is standard for unsanctioned gatherings.Haneen Abed Elnaby was born and raised in Gaza and left shortly before Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack. She says everything went upside-down when she left.Parents of slain Halifax teen grapple with grief, anger: ‘No one listened’