The Significance of the Press Image about the War on Gaza 2023-2024 on Palestinian News Websites

(A comparative analytical study)

Abstract

This study aimed to reveal the significance of the press image of the events of the war on Gaza in the year 2023-2024 AD on Palestinian websites, and to identify the order of its priorities and topics, and to know the goals of publishing the image, its trends, its sources, its central characters, and its symbolic significance. This study falls within the descriptive research that It relied on the survey method, within its framework, the content analysis method, and the method of studying mutual relations, within its framework, the systematic comparison method, and the data was collected through the content analysis form that was applied to the Dunya Al-Watan and Ma’an websites, during the time period from October 7 to November 7, 2023 AD, which is the first month of The war on Gaza by listing all the images circulated by the two study sites, based on the theory of the media agenda. The study concluded that: the occupation massacres topped the press photo topics at a rate of 18.8%, followed in second place by the topic of the occupation’s bombing at a rate of 14.1%, and the goal of exposing the occupation’s crimes ranked first. At a rate of 37.5%, followed in second place by appeals to public opinion at a rate of 20.8%. It showed that the anonymity of the journalistic source of the photo came first at a rate of 36.7%, followed in second place by the website archive at a rate of 33%, and the significance of the image of the destroyed house or institution came in first place at a rate of 19.7%. , followed by the meaning of the image of the martyrs and wounded at a rate of 14.2%, then the meaning of fire and smoke at a rate of 10.7%.