I (28M) have a friend (27F) who I know since university who is originally from Lebanon. Her mom still lives there while her dad has since passed away. She has some friends and family there still. We are actually roommates (completely platonic)

She has Muslim heritage but isn't religious and according to her neither is most of her family. They are very westernised and speak good English and French.

Since the whole pager thing I noticed she has been acting extremely scared and fearful. This is because she has been reading news from biased sources and social media. She was actually very upset about october 7th but then later started being upset at the operation in Gaza (I'm not happy with everything either but less so than her)

She mentioned this to me and I tried to reassure her that her family is safe and explain to her that they are only precisely targeting militants and terrorists and people associated with them and since her family isn't and are mostly business owners they will be safe. It is different since it isn't a small space like Gaza and the whole country isn't militants hiding behind human shields and people are more educated.

I sent her links to credible news sources about the operation and since she likes reddit some discussions on the world news sub about the situation to try to educate her.

However she told me I was insensitive and didn't seem to understand and is still acting like her family is at risk which unless they are militants shouldn't be.

Am I wrong for trying to reassure her? I hate seeing her scared over a non issue.