Campus protests live updates: Pro-Palestinian students occupy Columbia University's Hamilton Hall building

An NBC News reporter saw windows had been smashed and dozens of protesters entered the building. “This building is now being liberated,” someone in the crowd was heard to say.

The elite university had begun suspending students who defied an order to leave their pro-Palestinian encampment by the university's 2 p.m. deadline. Earlier in the day, the school's president said the school would not divest from Israel — a demand that hasDozens of protesters gained entry to Columbia University's historic Hamilton Hall in the early hours of this morning, smashing windows and flying pro-Palestinian flags from the windows.

Protesters invoked the famous anti-Vietnam War protests of 1968, when students occupied the same hall."Let's finish what they did in 1968," one said."This building is now being liberated," said another.Protesters at Columbia University broke windows at the Manhattan campus’ Hamilton Hall early Tuesday, hours after the school began suspending students who defied a deadline to leave a pro-Palestinian camp set up to protest the war in Gaza.

NBC News could not confirm how many people were inside Hamilton Hall, but the university’s student newspaper, the Columbia Spectator, reported that dozens of protesters had occupied the building.

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