The former Israeli Defense Minister, Benny Gantz, with the Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nasser Bourita, in Rabat, on Nov. 24, 2021. (Credit: Fadel Senna/AFP)
As Morocco positions itself as a key regional partner in postwar Gaza, a new international investigation has renewed scrutiny of one of the kingdom's most controversial ties with Israel: a security partnership that reportedly helped Rabat build an extensive surveillance apparatus targeting dissent.The revelations, by Moroccan journalist Hicham Mansouri, prompted a collaborative investigation coordinated by Forbidden Stories, a network of international journalists that continues the work of reporters who have been threatened or killed. The investigation draws on the unprecedented testimony of a former officer from Morocco's Directorate General of Territorial Surveillance (DGST). Rarely documented in such detail, the surveillance system combined the Israeli spyware Pegasus — used between 2017 and 2021 — with other methods already...
As Morocco positions itself as a key regional partner in postwar Gaza, a new international investigation has renewed scrutiny of one of the kingdom's most controversial ties with Israel: a security partnership that reportedly helped Rabat build an extensive surveillance apparatus targeting dissent.The revelations, by Moroccan journalist Hicham Mansouri, prompted a collaborative investigation coordinated by Forbidden Stories, a network of international journalists that continues the work of reporters who have been threatened or killed. The investigation draws on the unprecedented testimony of a former officer from Morocco's Directorate General of Territorial Surveillance (DGST). Rarely documented in such detail, the surveillance system combined the Israeli spyware Pegasus — used between 2017 and 2021 — with other methods...
