NYPD make arrests at Fordham University
STORY: New York City police arrested dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators holed-up in an academic building on nearby Columbia University campus late on Tuesday (April 30) and removed a protest encampment the Ivy League school had sought to dismantle for nearly two weeks. Daytime aerials over the university campus on Wednesday morning (May 1) showed a cleared protest site where protesters had previously camped out for several days.
As student rallies have spread to dozens of schools across the U.S. in recent days expressing opposition to Israel's war in Gaza, police have been called in to quell or clear protests.
About 1,200 people in southern Israel were killed in the Oct. 7 attack but the Israeli retaliatory assault has killed nearly 35,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza health ministry figures, obliterated much of the enclave's infrastructure, and created a humanitarian crisis verging on famine.
