غلاف غـزة. وهـذا يحجـب جـذور الصـراع الإسرائيلي-الفلسـطيني؛ لأن التغطية تكتفي بتأطيـره في سـياق مخصـوص هـو «الهجـوم على إسـرائيل»، بينمـا في الواقـع هناك هـِر أن الشـعب الفلسـطيني يـرزح تحـت نيـر الاحـتلال � حقائـق تاريخيـة وواقعيـة تُُظ الإــسرائيلي مــنذ عــقود طويــلة. الحـرب على غـزة، التغطيـة الإعلاميـة، التأطيـر الإخبـاري، السـياق، كلمـات مفتاحيـة: الحــروب والنزاعات. Abstract: This study addresses a central question regarding the role of media coverage of the Israeli war on Gaza from the news perspectives of Al Jazeera Net and BBC Arabic. It analyses the content features and framing approaches used in covering the development and consequences of the war between 7 October 2023, and 19 January 12025. The study employs content analysis to identify the characteristics of the coverage, based on a systematic random sample of 32 news reports—16 from each of the two websites. The study finds that Al Jazeera Net adopts a news perspective that emphasises the broader context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, portraying Israel as an occupying power that has used military force to dominate Palestinian land since 1948. Accordingly, its coverage frames the war on Gaza within this historical and contextual dimension, asserting that the conflict did not begin on 7 October 2023, but rather is rooted in more than seven decades of occupation. Al Jazeera also highlights the humanitarian dimensions of the war and its varied impacts, particularly the destruction inflicted on Palestinian political, economic, social, educational and cultural life. In contrast, BBC Arabic adopts a news perspective that identifies the start of the conflict as the attack launched by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on Israeli settlements around the Gaza Strip on 7 October. As such, the coverage justifies the Israeli army’s “right to self-defence” and frequently uses the phrase “Hamas attack on Israel” to describe the events of 7 October. This framing suggests that the war on Gaza was a response to the military action by Hamas, thereby obscuring the historical roots of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The coverage reduces the conflict to a specific moment – i.e. “the attack on Israel” – ignoring deeper historical and political realities that show the Palestinian people have lived under Israeli occupation for many decades. Keywords: War on Gaza, Media Coverage, News Framing, Context, Wars, Conflicts.
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