Al-Thawabteh: Algeria a Key Ally in Defending Palestine Against Disinformation
The director of the Gaza Government Media Office, Ismail Al-Thawabteh, said that Algeria has been a true supporter of the Palestinian cause in the battle of consciousness against the Zionist disinformation machine. He praised the steadfast stance of Algerian media, which have made the Palestinian struggle a national cause.
Al-Thawabteh made the remarks during a conference organized Wednesday evening by the Algerian National Union of Journalists and Information Professionals (UNJIA) on Zoom. The meeting discussed the situation of Palestinian media following the Zionist aggression on the Gaza Strip, the role of the press in documenting war crimes, and its support for international justice.
He stressed that “the Palestinian journalist has not only reported the event but has become the event itself,” noting that “256 journalists have been martyred and 50 others imprisoned since the beginning of the aggression on Gaza on October 7, 2023,” while “more than 420 journalists have been injured, including cases of full paralysis and limb amputation, while performing their duties.”
He added that the occupation forces have systematically targeted media institutions, destroying 12 newspaper and magazine offices, 23 online media platforms, 11 radio stations, and 16 television channels.
“Financial losses in the media sector exceed 800 million dollars,” according to initial estimates.
Al-Thawabteh also recalled that journalists in Gaza “continued their work amid the rubble and in tents, braving bombings to convey the Palestinian reality and dismantle the occupation’s false narrative.”
Speaking about the ongoing battle of narratives, he paid special tribute to Algerian media professionals who “stood as unwavering allies during the genocidal war,” emphasizing that Algerian journalism helped bring the Palestinian reality to European streets and raise awareness among Western public opinion, which “shifted from supporting the occupation to supporting freedom for Palestine.”
Al-Thawabteh further stressed the need to “move from expressions of solidarity to building a media consciousness that resists erasure and falsification,” proposing “the creation of a joint Algerian-Palestinian media observatory to monitor the information war and produce shared documentation preserving Palestinian memory.”
