Students and pro-Palestinian demonstrators took to the streets around New York University on Friday, May 3, to protest the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, as well as police action against protesters.

The New York Police Department cleared the NYU student encampment on Friday as the day began at the university in downtown Manhattan.

Many of the protesters were asleep when the operation began, according to media reports.

Later in the morning, clean-up crews could be seen taking down tents and chairs and scraping up the remains of protest signs.

Around 13 arrests were made, according to local media reports.

Similar crackdowns have taken place at universities across the country, from Arizona State to Virginia Tech and from Ohio State to Yale. Police have arrested around 2,000 campus protesters so far.

(Production: Hussein Al Waaile, Roselle Chen, Jose Pablo Diaz)

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