27 people were arrested during pro-Palestinian protests against the Met Gala in New York

Twenty-seven people were arrested during the pro-Palestinian protest against the Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, police said Tuesday.

Leila Nouri, 21, was charged with assault and resisting arrest when she allegedly resisted police officers who arrested her as they tried to disperse the crowd near Madison Ave. on Monday around 4:30 p.m. and E. 80th St. to disperse.

Five other people arrested at the scene were issued tickets with the primary charge against them being either resisting arrest or criminal trespass, and were then released.

The other 21 were cited for disorderly conduct.

The arrests were the culmination of protests known as “Day of rage For Gaza: From the camps to the streets.”

It began around 4 p.m. Monday afternoon at Columbia University and New York University, with a planned meeting at Hunter College at 5 p.m. before marching toward the Met. But police stopped the protesters about a block from the museum and barricaded the street to ensure no one could get through.

The large group split into four smaller groups as they apparently looked for a way to evade the police.

One of the groups marched up Fifth Ave. along to E. 67th St., where she came across the One Hundred Seventh Infantry Memorial, which honors infantry members who died in World War I.

A Daily News reporter witnessed the group burning an American flag spray paint the words “Gaza” and “Free Palestine” on the massive bronze monument. No arrests were made at the intersection because police did not observe the vandalism.

The group continued down Fifth Avenue to E. 59th St., where they destroyed the General William Tecumseh Sherman Monument in the southeast corner of Central Park.

Protesters hung a Palestinian flag and defaced the statue with spray paint and stickers. Police surrounded the monument to prevent the group from causing further damage.

Sources said the Met had a larger security contingent than usual – including plainclothes investigators both outside and inside the Fifth Avenue museum.

Mayor Adams and police said “outside agitators” were involved in the college demonstrations that have roiled campuses across the city over the past two weeks.

There has been debate about whether students were persuaded to adopt tactics they otherwise could have avoided, such as the recent takeover of Columbia’s Hamilton Hall, which was broken up by the NYPD last Tuesday night.