![A Palestinian woman and her children, after the Israeli bombings on Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, on December 15.](https://imagenes.elpais.com/resizer/v2/GNUVDAI5RRADJMAXNL3QRWVUTI.jpg?auth=e200688ef60b808b059a24a04d36db419d5b24f273bdbad7d79d7bc72d053fba&width=414&height=233&focal=3405%2C2110)
When does compassion expire?
We told ourselves that we would not fall into the indifference of all those other times until one day, with the slip of a finger, we suddenly stop looking into the eyes of terror and focus on the next video that jumps out at us: it is more pleasant, without so much death