How much news coverage is Israel–Gaza receiving right now?

As of August 20, 2026, coverage matching this topic makes up 0.034% of all articles GDELT monitors worldwide, roughly 12 articles per day.

Is media coverage of Israel–Gaza increasing or decreasing?

Coverage is up 7.1% week-over-week (the mean of the latest 7 days compared with the 7 days before).

What is the tone of news coverage about Israel–Gaza?

The average GDELT tone of matching coverage is -6.28, which reads as strongly negative. Tone typically ranges from about -10 (very negative) to +10 (very positive).

How are these numbers measured?

Geotone processes the GDELT Project's 15-minute data files every two hours, matching this topic's fixed query against article titles across 65+ languages and aggregating counts and tone by UTC day. Coverage volume is the share of all GDELT-monitored articles matching the topic query; tone is the mean document tone. Full details are on the methodology page.

Israel–Gaza

Israel–Gaza accounts for 0.034% of all global news coverage monitored by GDELT as of August 20, 2026 (12 matched articles/day). Coverage is up 7.1% week-over-week. The average tone of this coverage is -6.28 — strongly negative.

Coverage of the Israel–Gaza conflict: military operations, ceasefire talks, hostages, and the humanitarian situation.

Data updated: August 20, 2026 · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Coverage share

0.034%

of monitored articles

Articles / day

matched by GDELT

Week over week

+7.1%

7-day mean vs prior

Average tone

-6.28

strongly negative

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Emotional signature

Anxiety-related words per 1,000 words of matching English-language coverage (LIWC dictionaries via GDELT's GCAM). Latest day: 4.7 anxiety · 26.7 anger · 14.3 positive emotion. Tone says whether coverage reads negative; these say what kind of negative.

Where this coverage comes from

By language

English58.3%
Spanish41.7%

Share of matching coverage, from GDELT breakdowns (as of 2026-08-20). Tone split: 91.7% of articles read distinctly negative, 0% distinctly positive.

In focus by country

Countries where Israel–Gaza coverage concentrates — each links to the stories and headlines for that intersection.

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily human pageviews of the topic's English Wikipedia article (Wikimedia Analytics). Coverage measures what the press supplies; this measures what readers seek out. Week-over-week: coverage +7.1%, reader interest -10.6% — supply and demand are diverging.

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Frequently asked questions

How much news coverage is Israel–Gaza receiving right now?: As of August 20, 2026, coverage matching this topic makes up 0.034% of all articles GDELT monitors worldwide, roughly 12 articles per day.
Is media coverage of Israel–Gaza increasing or decreasing?: Coverage is up 7.1% week-over-week (the mean of the latest 7 days compared with the 7 days before).
What is the tone of news coverage about Israel–Gaza?: The average GDELT tone of matching coverage is -6.28, which reads as strongly negative. Tone typically ranges from about -10 (very negative) to +10 (very positive).
How are these numbers measured?: Geotone processes the GDELT Project's 15-minute data files every two hours, matching this topic's fixed query against article titles across 65+ languages and aggregating counts and tone by UTC day. Coverage volume is the share of all GDELT-monitored articles matching the topic query; tone is the mean document tone. Full details are on the methodology page.

Methodology: coverage share and tone are computed from GDELT's 15-minute data files and aggregated to UTC days — see how every number is computed. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).