Columbia University Issues Deadline For Gaza Encampment To Vacate Campus

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 29: Pro-Palestinian demonstrators hold a protest outside of Columbia University on April 29, 2024 in New York City. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched as a 2 p.m. deadline to clear an encampment given to students by the university passed. The students were given a suspension warning if they did not meet the deadline. Students at Columbia were the first from an elite college to erect an encampment in support of Palestine with students demanding that the school divest from Israel amid the Israel-Hamas war, in which more than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)