Police have arrested staff and students protesting against Israel’s onslaught on Gaza at New York University, Al Jazeera reports.

Earlier, faculty members reportedly joined a line of people holding hands to form a line to separate student activists from the police.

The activist group Within our Lifetime said police then “arrested all faculty who were protecting students at the encampment”.

Students at Columbia University and Yale University have also been arrested in recent days as pro-Palestinian student protests continue around the United States.

Columbia’s President Nemat Minouche Shafik said on Monday the university was cancelling in-person classes and moving to online teaching to “deescalate the rancour and give us all a chance to consider next steps”.

More than 100 students were arrested at the Columbia campus last week after Shafik called in police to clear a tent encampment set up in solidarity with the people of Gaza.