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Hey everybody, it's Mary Elsiegara.

Last weekend, militants from the terrorist group Hamas killed more than 1,000 people,

including children, and an attack on Israel.

According to the Israel Defense Forces, Hamas has taken hostages as well.

Israel and retaliatory attacks has killed more than 1,000 Palestinians so far, including

at least 90 children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

And humanitarian groups are warning of a coming crisis as Israel is 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.

In this episode of LifeKit, she's going to share some advice with us on how you can

talk to kids about this conflict and 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.

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