People demonstrate calling for peace and the end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine, in Los Angeles, California on October 12, 2023, after the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched an attack on Israel. Hamas gunmen killed 1,200 people in Israel and took about 150 hostages in their surprise onslaught launched from Gaza on October 7, 2023. Israel has retaliated by raining air and artillery strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza for six days, claiming more than 1,400 lives. Rally organizers noted in their press release that the rally was not an anti-Semitic event and it is not against Jewish people and not in support of terrorism, adding, "We are in full support of the Palestinian struggle for liberation and self- determination." (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP)