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Pro-Palestinian campus protests have continued throughout the evening across leading US universities.
At Columbia University in New Yorkthe protests escalated after demonstrators occupied an academic building called Hamilton Hall, barricading themselves inside.
They said they did so in honor of Hind Rajab, a six-year-old girl found dead in Gaza earlier this year.
Columbia has invited students and staff to stay away from campus on Tuesday. It began suspending student protesters who defied a deadline of 2:00 PM EST on Monday to leave their two-week encampment, though dozens of students remain at the site.
Elsewhere in the country, dozens of protesters at the University of Texas at Austin were arrested.
At Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmondstudents said police used tear gas and pepper spray against their gathering on Monday.
And a strange deal was struck with protesters and officials at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinoisnorth of Chicago, who had been camped out for days.
Under the deal, the university said it would permit “peaceful demonstrations”, provided the encampment was limited to a single tent.
