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The Representation of Gaza’s Humanitarian Crisis in the BBC News Report: A Critical Discourse Analysis

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Volume: 6 | Issue: 1 | Pages: 924-928

Subject: Forensic Evidence

Country: Iraq

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54660/IJMRGE.2025.6.1.924-928

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Abstract

This paper applies critical discourse analysis (CDA)theories to media discourse. The researcher selects the humanitarian crisis in Gaze after the 7 October Palestinian attack on Israel and how Israel responded aggressively. A few studies have applied critical discourse theories to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Kandil (2009) studies Corpus-Based Critical Discourse Analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Arab, British, and American Media. On the other hand, Yasmin Aldadah (2018) wrote her M.A. thesis about the Jerusalem Conflict on BBC and AJE. Ahmed and Hussain (2022) and Raza, Hakimi, and Malik (2023) also study the Israel-Palestine conflict. However, none of the studies examines the Israel-Palestine conflict after the 7 October 2023 attacks and its massive effect on innocent women and children in Gaze. Moreover, this study aims to investigate BBC news reports depicting this humanitarian crisis according to Wodak’s (2001; 2009) discourse-historical approach and van Leeuwen’s (2008) sociological representation of social actors to fill this gap in the study. The selected news report is analyzed at two levels: linguistic and ideological. The researchers conclude that political Discourse dramatically affects the lives of innocent women and children. This paper addresses the following research questions: 
•    What macro-topics are associated with representing Gaza’s humanitarian crisis in the BBC News report?
•    What micro-strategies and categories are associated with representing Gaza’s humanitarian crisis in the BBC News report?
•    How do macro-topics and micro-strategies uncover the ideology of the participant?
 

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Doaa Taher Matrood (2025). The Representation of Gaza’s Humanitarian Crisis in the BBC News Report: A Critical Discourse Analysis . International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Growth Evaluation (IJMRGE), 6(1), 924-928. DOI: https://doi.org/10.54660/IJMRGE.2025.6.1.924-928

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Journal: International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Growth Evaluation (IJMRGE)

Publisher: Anfo Publication House

ISSN: 2582-7138 (Online)

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Language: English

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