Portrayal of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Regional Media Analysis of the use of framing in media coverage in Al Jazeera and Times of Israel of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from 2019-2024

Abstract

This paper studies and analyzes how casualties of war/killing are framed in regional media outlets in regards to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from 2019-2024. With this study I will use a catalog of 10 articles from Al Jazeera and 10 from Times of Israel to analyze which framing methods are more prominent in the media outlets, and the different ways these framing devices are used. This analysis is conducted by using a qualitative analysis method, and using a coding frame inspired by the operationalization method of Mohammed ElMasry (2009). The framing analysis of the sample articles found that both news outlets primarily condemned the other. On the one hand, Times of Israel primarily framed the Gazan factions as criminals. On the other hand, Al Jazeera primarily focused on humanizing the victims of the Israeli attacks. There is also an analysis of how these framing devices are used. During my analysis I also explored that Times of Israel primarily uses the framing of criminality to justify the actions against the Gazan factions, and to justify the actions of the military. Moreover, Al Jazeera uses humanizing framing to counter the Israeli narratives.