Television footage aired by CNN shows dozens of officers in riot gear entering the building, with some carrying zip-tie restraints and heavy-duty bolt cutters

Displaced Palestinians write thank you messages on tents in southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah

The movement has garnered support from activists both within and outside the campuses.

Police attempted to clear the sit-in at Arizona State University, but prosecutors defiantly remained on a campus lawn after their tents were torn down and carried away by law enforcement. Demonstrators attempted to gather what they could, and locked arms around a canopy that was left standing.

According to the statement, the students were detained because they refused to remove the tents they set up for the anti-Israeli sit-in.