A pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the campus of George Washington University in the US capital was cleared by police early Wednesday. Pamela Smith, the chief of police in Washington, said officers arrested 33 people who ignored six “dispersal announcements,” but that most of the protesters had followed orders to leave the site. “They begin very peacefully. But over the past few days we begin to see an escalation in the volatility of the protest,” Smith said at a press conference. The protest at George Washington University began on April 25. Recently there had been more confrontations be…