Israel's propaganda strategies: case study of the protective edge operation in Gaza 2014

During the fifty-one days of attacks in 2014, about 2,200 Palestinian individuals were brutally murdered, a quarter of these Palestinian victims were still children, 142 Palestinian families lost about three or more of their family members.In addition to the injuries which reached to about 11,000 individuals of the people of Gaza. As an occupier state, Israel tends to use different types of propaganda techniques as an attempt to protect itself from the international community accusations. The Israeli propaganda responses to the murders committed by its soldiers by showing “empathy”; then, they reframe the issue of murdering civilians by propagating that Israel cannot be blamed because it is self-defence. Israeli forces made use of various strategies and techniques of propaganda in order to legitimize and justify its assaults against the Gaza Strip in Palestine. Israel, as the source of propaganda, has used many techniques and strategies of propaganda to target its audience in the Islamic and non-Islamic states by providing them with false information in order to create a public opinion towards the people of Gaza Strip.