Abstract
One of the events that have characterized the human cost of the Gaza Conflict of 2008–2009 is the mortar shelling of a United Nations (UN) run School, sheltering more than 1300 Palestinian civilians seeking refuge from the fighting. This paper offers a multi-modal approach to Critical Discourse Analysis by examining how the English and the Arabic language services of British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Al-Jazeera approached the event. It details the visual and textual depiction of the proportionality of casualties, the humanitarian situation, and the extent to which the actions of the protagonists are presented as justified, rationalized, or legitimized. The paper finds that all the channels recognized that the deaths of civilians are regrettable and tragic, but differed in their judgements about whether the attacks were deliberately targeting civilians, or were the collateral consequences of conducting intensive military action in highly populated urban environments.
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