Footage posted on social media shows protesters smashing the glass of the academic building's doors and locking it shut.
Pro-Palestinian student protesters have occupied an academic building at Columbia University, according to videos posted on social media.Footage shows protesters smashing the glass of Hamilton Hall's doors and locking it shut in the early hours of Tuesday morning.On Monday, the university said that it had started suspending students who defied an ultimatum to leave the pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the campus by a Monday afternoon deadline.
It began after Hamas' attack on southern Israel on October 7, when militants killed about 1,200 people and took roughly 250 hostages. In the ensuing war, Israel has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, The Associated Press reported, citing the local Health Ministry.On Monday, Columbia University President Minouche Shafik announced that negotiations between university officials and student protesters had broken down.
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