Police arrested several protesters who set up a pro-Palestinian encampment inside a building on Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus Wednesday, a day after clearing protests at Columbia University and the City College of New York, an NYPD official said.

According to police sources, 15 people were arrested at the university.

More than 30 student protesters took over part of the Lowenstein Center at West 60th Street and Columbus Avenue, setting up an encampment inside the building’s lobby.

In a social media post Wednesday evening, the NYPD’s deputy commissioner of operations, Kaz Daughtry, said Fordham “requested our assistance to disperse an unlawful encampment of individuals inside one of their buildings.”

“Without incident, we have placed the individuals who refused to disperse from the unlawful encampment inside a [Fordham] building under arrest,” Daughtry wrote.

NY1 has reached out to Fordham University officials for a statement on the demonstration.

Witnesses said the encampment started early Wednesday morning, with a protest outside and on the roof of the building growing not long after.

Officers in tactical gear got in between the approximately 300 protesters and the building to obstruct their view.

According to The Observer, a student newspaper at Fordham, the encampment was organized by the student group Fordham Students for Justice in Palestine. The group is demanding an end to Israel’s military actions in Gaza, the newspaper reported.

Protests continued in other parts of the city as well. Hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered at Foley Square Wednesday afternoon. Organizers said they are standing in solidarity with student encampments.

NY1 spoke with several students who had gathered around the glass exterior of the building to support the protesters inside.

“They’re facing suspension. They’re facing expulsion. They’re facing violence at the hands of the NYPD, and they’re still sticking it out for their beliefs, for other people. And I think that’s what the Jesuit values are all about,” one protester said.

“I think what they’re doing is right and I think what Israel is doing is a genocide, and I think every campus in the nation should be doing this if they feel capable and up to it,” another protester said.

A memo sent to students said there had been no “disruptions to classes or operations” adding that students, faculty and staff should enter campus from West 62nd Street to avoid the location of the demonstration.

Some Jewish students who attend the university told NY1 the demonstration made them feel uncomfortable.

“When I got here, I felt unsafe. They blocked off all the entrances, and just seeing the signs, ‘From the river to the sea,’ ‘Globalize the Intifada,’ as a Jewish student, it’s not a welcome site. I felt threatened and targeted,” one student said.

The university has requested an increase in NYPD presence at the school due to the encampment, at least through May 22, which is commencement.

Students and staff entering the campus are also being asked by campus security to show their Fordham ID cards.