They were aged as young as 13 when they left their classrooms across Australia on Thursday 23 November 2023. They were led by children aged 16. They took to the streets in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide to march for the proscribed terror organisation Hamas in Gaza, barely a month since Hamas had attacked Israel killing 1,200 people, raping and taking others hostage including children younger than them. These marches were said to be organic: the idea of the kids acting alone. But teachers were involved influencing them before and after.