Algerian activists launch pro-Palestine media network

A number of Algerian journalists and media professionals announced the launch on Thursday of the Algerian Network of Media Practitioners in Solidarity with Palestine.

The founding charter aims at proposing suggestions and alternative solutions to the media sector to “present the most accurate picture on the flagrant violations against Palestinians in Gaza.”

The charter of the network calls on all workers in the media sector to join it.

According to the network’s founder and activist Belal Lrari, it aims at “embodying and reinforcing the values of solidarity with the Palestinian people at large.”

Lrari added that they “seek to awaken the conscience of Arab rulers by unifying the media discourse to confront Western media lobbying which depicts resistance of occupation as terrorism, in the same way Algerian resistance of French occupation was portrayed as illegitimate.”

The network will be officially launched on Friday at the Palestinian embassy in Algiers.

Lrari pointed out that the network will coordinate its work with international rights groups and pro-Palestine activists including Spanish journalists and Britain’s first Algerian Arab mayorMouna Hamitouche.