Round up of arrests at pro-Palestinian protests on US campuses

Reuters news agency reports that around 550 arrests have been made in the last week across major US universities as police crackdown on peaceful protests against Israel’s war in Gaza.

Here’s what we know:

Columbia University

Police arrested more than 100 protesters when they tried to clear a Gaza solidarity encampment last week.

University of Southern California

More than 90 people were arrested on Wednesday night for alleged trespassing.

University of Texas at Austin

The campus was calmer on Thursday, a day after police arrested dozens of students.

George Washington University 

About 50 students set up a tent encampment on Thursday.

Harvard University

The university locked most gates into its famous Harvard Yard this week but a camp with still set up.

California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt 

The university said protesters continue to occupy two buildings on campus.

Emerson College 

Boston police said on Thursday that 108 people were arrested at an encampment.

New York University

Police said 133 protesters had been taken into custody on Wednesday.

Emory University

Police dismantled a camp on Thursday morning. The Associated Press news agency counted at least 17 people detained.

Northwestern University 

Administrators changed the student code of conduct on Thursday to bar tents on its campus as student activists set up an encampment. No arrests have been reported yet.

Yale University 

Protests continued Thursday after Monday’s arrest of 48 people.

Fashion Institute of Technology 

Protesters set up tents and occupied a building on Thursday at the institute, part of the State University of New York system.

City College of New York 

Police and campus security confronted protesters but failed to clear their encampment on Thursday.

Indiana University Bloomington

Police made a number of arrests on Thursday afternoon.

Michigan State University East Lansing Campus

Nearly 30 tents were set up on Thursday afternoon.

Reporting from Washington, DC

It’s been three hours since the university said it wanted to see the college yard cleared of the tents and the protesters.

But there are still a number of people there – more than 200. Numbers have gone down as you would expect, and perhaps the police are playing a waiting game.

But those that are in this square are making provisions to stay the night.  They are bringing in more tents. They are bringing in more food. They are making sure that the people there have water as well.

Chants of “free Palestine” and cheers erupted as dozens of Georgetown University students joined the pro-Palestine, antiwar protests at the neighbouring George Washington University campus in the heart of the US capital city.

Students, professors and activists from across Washington, DC, have gathered to show solidarity with Palestinians amid the war on Gaza and demand an end to what they say is complicity by their educational institutions in Israel’s human rights abuses.

Student activism around Gaza has spread to universities and colleges across the US, and it is now taking centre stage in the country’s politics.

Read the full report here by Al Jazeera’s Ali Harb in Washington, DC.