Challenges and Risks of (In)Adequate Linguistic Structures in Reporting on Suffering in Israel, Palestine, and Ukraine – The Case of bild.de

This paper is the result of monitoring articles from online media in the German language on current topics. Given that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is currently the central topic of every world media, a linguistic analysis of the texts on the mentioned topic is carried out, from 07. 10, 2023, when the horrific murders of Izreal citizens took place, until 12/22, 2023. years. The focus is on the analysis and comparison of linguistic means used to describe suffering civilian, treating in more detail their morphological, semantic, and stylistic features. The results of the research show whether adequate language expressions and structures are used in reporting on the war casualties of civilians in Israel, Gaza, and Ukraine, where the focus is on being civilians in Israel and Gaza. All examples are taken from the German portal bild.de, considering that it is about the most read portal in Germany.