TEHRAN, May 01 (MNA) – Media sources have reported that police has entered the Columbia University to dismantle a pro-Palestinian protest there.Al Jazeera reported police are saying least 50 people have been arrested, with the students taken away in two police buses.

Students at Columbia University in New York are continuing the anti-Israeli protests despite expulsion threats.

The students barricaded themselves inside Hamilton Hall as the university’s management said it had begun to suspend students who ignored a deadline to abandon a Gaza Solidarity encampment on campus.

Students in dozens of universities across the United States have been protesting the Israeli regime's genocidal war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the US government's unconditional support for its ally.

Hundreds of people have been arrested since the protests first erupted at Columbia University in New York.

The anti-Israeli movement has now spread to other US universities across the nation.

Last week, US President Joe Biden signed into law a massive foreign funding bill that includes $17 billion in additional military aid to Israel amid the ongoing aggression in Gaza.

Israel waged a genocidal war on the besieged Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian Hamas Resistance group carried out a historic operation against the occupying entity in retaliation for the regime’s intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.

At least 34,488 Palestinians have been killed and 77,643 injured in Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza since October 7.

Israel has imposed a complete siege on the densely populated territory, cutting off fuel, electricity, food, and water to the more than two million Palestinians living there.

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