Pro-Palestinian demonstrators take part on a rally in front of the US embassy in Jakarta on December 17, 2023. 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 killing 1,200 people and took 240 people hostage, Israel says, in an unprecedented attack triggering a war declared by Israel on Hamas with retaliatory bombings on Gaza. Since then, more than 18,000 Palestinians, around 70 percent of them women, young children and adolescents, have been killed in the Gaza Strip in Israeli bombardments according to the Hamas government's Ministry of Health. (Photo by BAY ISMOYO / AFP)