Police take demonstrators into custody on the campus of the Art Institute of Chicago after students established a protest encampment on the grounds on May 4. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption
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Makeshift tents for displaced Palestinians at a temporary camp in Rafah, southern Gaza, on May 3. Ahmad/Bloomberg/Getty Images hide caption
Displaced Palestinians in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip pack their belongings following an evacuation order by the Israeli army on Monday amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. -/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Israeli soldiers drive a tank at a staging ground near the border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel on Sunday. Tsafrir Abayov/AP hide caption
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a press conference in the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv, Israel on Oct. 28, 2023. Netanyahu's government has voted to shut down Israel-based offices of Al Jazeera. Abir Sultan/AP hide caption
A relative points to a hole in the roof of Mohammed al-Hassouni's family home. It was caused by an Iranian missile fragment that injured his 7-year-old daughter on the night Iran attacked Israel. Ahmad Gharabli/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Soldiers assigned to the 7th Transportation Brigade and sailors attached to the MV Roy P. Benavidez assemble a floating pier off the shore of Gaza on April 26, 2024. The U.S. expects to have on-the-ground arrangements in Gaza ready for humanitarian workers to start delivering aid this month via a new U.S.-backed sea route. U.S. Army via AP hide caption
Pro-Palestinian students protest outside the Department for Education on March 22 in London. The students called for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and for an end to links between U.K. universities and Israel. Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty Images hide caption
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is shown speaking during a joint statement to the media in Baghdad, on April 22, 2024. Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AP hide caption
Students and pro-Palestinian activists face police as they gather outside of Columbia University to protest the university's stance on Israel's war in Gaza. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
NYC mayor says 'outside agitators' are co-opting Columbia protests—students disagree
Columbia University professors demonstrate outside the Columbia campus demanding the release of students. Hundreds of people were arrested at pro-Palestinian protests on US campuses as police on May 1 extended a crackdown that included clearing out demonstrators occupying a building at Columbia University in New York. CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
For weeks students have protested the war in Gaza — now things are escalating
Colombian President Gustavo Petro (center right) attends an International Workers' Day rally in Bogotá, Colombia, on Wednesday. Jair F. Coll/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Israel will enter Rafah, the city in southern Gaza where more than a million displaced Palestinians have taken shelter, "with or without a deal" to free the remaining hostages. Leo Correa/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Aviva Siegel, who was held hostage in Gaza for 51 days, and whose husband Keith remains in Hamas captivity, spends time with her eight-year-old granddaughter Yali Tiv at her daughter's home on Kibbutz Gazit on March 26. Aviva has been staying with her daughter in northern Israel since being released in November. Tamir Kalifa for NPR hide caption
On Monday a morgue in Rafah filled up with the bodies of 25 people killed in Israeli airstrikes. Hospital records show 15 of them women and children. Anas Baba for NPR hide caption
Presiding judge Nawaf Salam (fourth from left) arrives to read a decision at the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, Tuesday. Peter Dejong/AP hide caption
An Atlanta police officer takes down tents on the campus of Emory University after a pro-Palestinian demonstration Thursday in Atlanta. Mike Stewart/AP hide caption
As pro-Palestinian protests spread, more university leaders weigh police involvement
A Palestinian man walks on building rubble in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on April 22. AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A U.S. diplomat tells NPR why she resigned in protest over the policy in Gaza
A man holds up a Palestinian flag as activists and students chant, surrounding piled barricades at an encampment at University Yard at George Washington University on April 29. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images hide caption
Today's college protests over the Gaza war echo history — but there are differences
People stand next to a vehicle in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on April 2, where workers from the World Central Kitchen (WCK), were killed in Israeli airstrikes, according to the NGO. Yasser Qudihe/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty hide caption
Bernie Sanders is pictured in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on April 3 in Washington, D.C. Sanders accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of using claims of antisemitism as a deflection of criticism of the war. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
Bernie Sanders says Netanyahu is attacking campus protests to deflect war criticism
Tal Wax holds a poster with a photograph of her uncle Keith Siegel, a hostage held in Gaza since the Oct. 7 attacks, during a press conference in Madrid, Spain, on Jan. 25. Manu Fernandez/AP hide caption
People inspect damage and remove items from their homes following Israeli airstrikes on April 7, in Khan Yunis, Gaza. Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images hide caption
Displaced Palestinians in Rafah sit in the shade of their tent on a 100-degree day in the Gaza Strip. Anas Baba for NPR hide caption