If you believe that you're safe, unaffected by what is going on in Gaza, because you're only reading or watching reports, think again: Exposure to the traumatic images and reports causes health- and life-threatening stress with serious and long-lasting consequences.
War changes you even when you're not directly in harm's way.
I am by no means suggesting that the media stop publishing these events. As citizens in democratic republics, we must be informed about what our governments are doing "in our names". But don't for a moment take comfort in being thousands of miles away, and therefore it's not happening to you.
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