Palestinian Satellite Media in the Service of Palestinian Prisoners in Israel’s Occupation Prisons: An Analytical Study

Abstract

This study aims to shed light on the role of the Palestinian satellite media in serving prisoners in the prisons of the occupier and the extent of its ability to develop its media coverage and harness it in defending these prisoners, shouting their voices, conveying their suffering, and mobilizing the local, regional, and global audience behind their cause. The paper was based on its content analysis methodology. This study focused on the media coverage of the Palestinian satellite channels specified in the research's subject throughout 2021, from the first month of January to the last day of the last week of the previous month of December. In the most noticeable results of this study, despite the massive pain and the importance of the issue, the Palestinian visual media did not seek to equate its media coverage with the importance of this issue and the sacrifices of its children. Behind digging up the truth and facing the world with it. The Palestinian visual media was at the quantitative level, so it sought to cover various issues extensively. Still, it was qualitatively superficial, transient, traditional, lagging the language of the modern world, and from the voice and strictness of the law, fluctuating in its coverage and seasonal in its use.