Освещение эскалации конфликта в секторе Газа западными СМИ: объективное отражение событий или искажение реальности?

Abstract

The article provides an analysis of the Western-oriented media outlets and its coverage of the crisis in the Gaza Strip, as well the actions of HAMAS and the IDF. The paper also examines the reaction of the international community to the HAMAS attack on Israel, as well as to the IDF's retaliatory strike on the Gaza Strip and on the civilian population. The author analyzes the ways in which Western media present the conflict and their impact on public opinion. The study concludes that Western media intentionally and voluntarily use specific stylistic phrases and expressions describ-ing the actions of HAMAS, applying at the same time a neutral journalistic style with regard to the humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip, which results in depersonalization of Palestinian victims. The change in the news agenda is directly related to the transformation of the international community's reaction to the events in the Gaza Strip: the positions of key Western countries soften regarding the humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip so does Western media. The fact of depersonalization and de-humanization of the Palestinian population still remains on the news agenda, which leads to the conclu-sion that despite the claims of independence and liberality the Western media broadcast a position structure of Western states and Israel in covering the conflict in the Gaza Strip, ignoring at the same time the interpretation of the conflict by non-Western actors, including Russia.