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Hey, everybody, it's Marielle Ciara.
Last weekend, militants from the terrorist group Hamas killed more than 1000 people, including children, in an attack on Israel.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, Hamas has taken hostages as well.
Israel, in retaliatory attacks, has killed more than 1000 Palestinians so far, including at least 90 children.
Palestinian Ministry of Health and humanitarian groups are warning of a coming crisis as Israel has promised to cut off food, water and electricity to Gaza, where nearly half of residents are under 18.
The news is alarming for anyone, but.
Especially for kids who may have heard.
About it from their peers or on social media and have a lot of questions.
Becky Sullivan is a reporter for NPR's news Desk, and she's been covering this on this episode of Lifekit.
She's going to share some advice with us on how you can talk to kids about this conflict, other news events that involve death and violence.
Becky, I think the first question a lot of parents might have here is should I bring this up to my kid at all?
You know, like if they haven't mentioned it, maybe they don't even know about the conflict and I don't want to scare them unnecessarily.
Yeah, I think that is a totally understandable concern.
But the experts that I spoke to actually pretty uniformly recommended being proactive about starting a conversation for parents.
You know, I think it can be easy to sit back and sort of wait for your kids to come to you.
One expert I talked to characterized that as a common mistake.
Basically like, you know, kids are citizens of this world, too.
They deserve to know what's going on.