Members of the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community hold placards as they take part in a National March for Palestine in central London on December 9, 2023, calling for full ceasefire in the war in Gaza. Thousands of civilians, both Palestinians and Israelis, have died since October 7, 2023, after Palestinian Hamas militants based in the Gaza Strip entered southern Israel in an unprecedented attack triggering a war declared by Israel on Hamas with retaliatory bombings on Gaza. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)