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- Hundreds of arrests have been made at Columbia University and the City College of New York.
- Pro-Palestinian protesters had barricaded themselves in Hamilton Hall, a main campus building at Columbia.
- The arrests were confirmed by an NYPD official who took part in a press conference.
Three hundred people have been arrested at protests at Columbia and City College of New York, police said.
Columbia has been rocked by protests for days over Israel's war on Gaza following Hamas' October 7 terror attack on Israel.