“Rather than protect its students, Columbia has been complicit, offering an 'internet-optional' university that only the students it can't protect have to use," representing attorney says.
Anti-Israel mob barricade themselves inside Hamilton Hall, staff member briefly held against his will.
Another soldier was seriously injured in the fighting.
Columbia University begins suspending anti-Israel protesters for refusal to dismantle their protest camp, part of a wave of campus demonstrations and clashes between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel groups across the US in recent weeks.
Columbia activists defied the 2 p.m. deadline with chants, clapping and drumming from the encampment of more than 300 people. No officials appeared to enter the encampment, with at least 120 tents staying up as the deadline passed.
"We call for the immediate release of all hostages held by Hamas in Gaza now for over 200 days," the joint declaration signed by the 18 nations stated, marking a significant diplomatic effort to resolve the protracted conflict.
Some $17 billion are earmarked for bolstering Israel's defense capabilities.
School says students agreed to remove some tents from the protest encampment in exchange for a 48-hour extension before fully dismantling it.
"Seeing a video of Hersh today is overwhelming. We're relieved to see him alive but we're also concerned about his health and wellbeing as well as that of all of the other hostages and all of those suffering in this region," Goldberg-Polin's father says in a video message.
Amichai Chikli, a member of Likud, expresses concerns about the perceived lack of strength in US leadership under President Joe Biden.
