The online investigative media outlet Daraj revealed in an investigation, published Friday the extent of the Syrian regime's reactions after the pager attack on Hezbollah members on Sept. 17, 2024. On that day, a military intelligence branch issued an urgent message stating that, according to a local source, paging devices used by Hezbollah, an ally of the Syrian government, exploded in Lebanon. The messages continued to flow throughout the day. Seeking to gather as much information as possible, the officers from the concerned branch sometimes relied on rumors and outdated information to try and understand the situation.Daraj, in partnership with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) journalist consortium, retrieved this correspondence from a collection of documents in the offices of Branch 235 in Syria, better...
The online investigative media outlet Daraj revealed in an investigation, published Friday the extent of the Syrian regime's reactions after the pager attack on Hezbollah members on Sept. 17, 2024. On that day, a military intelligence branch issued an urgent message stating that, according to a local source, paging devices used by Hezbollah, an ally of the Syrian government, exploded in Lebanon. The messages continued to flow throughout the day. Seeking to gather as much information as possible, the officers from the concerned branch sometimes relied on rumors and outdated information to try and understand the situation.Daraj, in partnership with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) journalist consortium, retrieved this correspondence from a collection of documents in the offices of Branch 235 in Syria,...