Students at Columbia University on Saturday reflected on having a protest encampment over the Israel-Hamas war on their campus.
Protests at the Ivy League university have inspired pro-Palestinian demonstrations across the country.
Student leaders representing the encampment said Friday that they reached an impasse with administrators and intended to continue their protest.
Though the university has repeatedly set and then pushed back deadlines for the removal of the encampment, the school sent an email to students Friday night saying that bringing back police “at this time” would be counterproductive.
Campus protests began after Hamas’ deadly attack on southern Israel, when militants killed about 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and took roughly 250 hostages.
During the ensuing war, Israel has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, according to the local health ministry.