This thesis aims to explore Al Jazeera’s and The New York Times’ online news articles from October 2023 about Israel declaring war on Hamas. The aim of this analysis is to describe and analyse certain strategies that journalists of these two different media outlets employ in the representation of the events taking place on 7th of October 2023. The analysis of the online news articles was done following the tenets of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) (Machin and Mayr: 2012) and Discursive News Values Analysis (DNVA) (Bednarek and Caple: 2017). The study showed that the New York Times’ article news value construction highlights negativity, impact, unexpectedness and superlativeness. When it comes to discursive strategies used, CDA showed that Al Jazeera implements word connotations mostly to refer to participants of the war and to emphasize the event using negatively connotated verbs. The New York Times implements word connotations with sarcastic remarks and mitigations and is using linguistic choice which help distance the author from the statement. Overlexicalization is method implemented by both media outlets; Al Jazeera implements it mostly for associations and organizations, whereas the New York Times implements it more for important people. Impersonalisation is used in both articles as a part of metonymy. Al Jazeera’s article tends to use collectivisation (mostly to refer to casualties), whereas the New York Times does the opposite and individualises people more (mostly to refer to experts and their statements or actions in this war). The opposing strategies of functionalisation-nominalisation also reveal a difference between these two media outlets; Al Jazeera prefers functionalisation and the New York Times nominalisation. Finally, both articles implement both types of aggregation, but scarcely.