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#OpenProbe🧵| Though leadership and allegiances have shifted, many who once served under the Assad regime have reappeared in Suwayda under new banners and uniforms, reviving the same brutal tactics—killings, mutilations, and grave desecration—so the cycle of violence continues.
✔️In a new investigation, Eekad uncovers a network of Druze fighters operating under the spiritual authority of Sheikh Hikmat Al-Hijri. Their digital footprints reveal years of service in the regime’s military and security apparatus, evidence that the crimes of a fallen dictatorship have resurfaced.
❓But who are these men, and how have they managed to revive past violence under new leadership?
#OpenProbe🧵| Before Israeli authorities intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla and detained its crew, a coordinated multi-phase disinformation campaign was actively shaping public perceptions of the civilian-led convoy delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza.
✔️The flotilla was systematically vilified through a familiar playbook of distortion and stigmatization: first framed as a security threat, then smeared as a “Hamas flotilla,” and ultimately subjected to explicit calls for its ships to be sunk.
✔️Eekad’s investigation revealed that this effort was orchestrated by official Israeli accounts and amplified by a transnational network of right-wing profiles, recycling tactics previously used to justify attacks on journalists and hospitals in Gaza.
❓But by what mechanism was the civilian flotilla transformed into a perceived security threat? How did the campaign progress? And which groups supported the campaign?
#OpenProbe🧵| Across southern Syria and Lebanon, the landscape is being quietly—and systematically—reshaped. Trenches scar the hills, new military bases expand with minimal oversight, and roads are being constructed at an unprecedented pace. These developments point to a coordinated strategy that goes well past short-term defense.
✔️Eekad’s investigation traces the expanding footprint of Israeli operations, moving from Quneitra to the outskirts of Damascus, and from fortified positions in the Golan Heights to hilltop bases across southern Lebanon.
✔️Using satellite imagery, on-the-ground reports, and geolocation analysis, Eekad has documented a pattern of fortification, infrastructure expansion, and deliberate incursions that suggest objectives extending beyond mere border security.
#OpenProbe🧵| The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) targeted power stations, struck hospitals, and blocked humanitarian convoys, even contributing to the spread of epidemics among civilians. In doing so, the RSF turned their battlefield losses against the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) into a war of vengeance against civilians.
✔️Over months of intensive analysis, Eekad’s team employed comprehensive open-source methods to track these attacks. Using evidence, news reports, visuals, satellite imagery, and thermal and electro-optical sensors, Eekad’s team uncovered that these actions were not random but part of a systematic policy pursued by Hemedti’s forces to punish the SAF and drain the state’s resources.
❓But what are the most prominent of these attacks? What impact have they had? And how have they escalated over the course of the conflict in Sudan?
#OpenProbe🧵| The Joint Force, aligned with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), faced significant challenges in halting the advance of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) near the strategically vital tri-border region connecting Sudan, Libya, and Egypt. Amid this escalating conflict, Libya’s Subul Al-Salam Battalion—a militia affiliated with the Libyan National Army (LNA) under Khalifa Haftar—emerged as a decisive actor. The battalion not only supplied fighters, weapons, and logistical support to Hemedti’s forces but also deployed its own personnel to establish a continuous supply corridor for the RSF.
✔️Eekad’s latest investigation sheds light on the battalion’s role as a covert ally to the RSF, tracing a critical supply route from Kufra Airport in southeastern Libya to Darfur in western Sudan. The report delves into the battalion’s leadership, organizational structure, affiliated networks, and expanding operational footprint, revealing a Libyan militia’s pivotal role in Sudan’s increasingly transnational war.
#OpenProbe🧵| A new investigation by Eekad offers the first comprehensive media analysis of the Popular Forces militia—led by Yaser Abu Shabab, backed by Israel, and implicated in systematically looting humanitarian aid in Gaza. This report outlines the group’s internal structure, identifies its key areas of operation, and traces its movement across the Gaza Strip.
✔️Drawing on field photographs, satellite imagery, and digital footprints, Eekad’s investigation highlights how aid distribution has been manipulated to serve Israeli strategic objectives.
❓However, key questions remain: Who are the members of this militia? Where were they deployed? And what violations have they openly documented?
#OpenProbe🧵| During our analysis of the social media debate surrounding the escalation in Suwayda, we identified pro-Iranian accounts adopting Arab identities, celebrating the Israeli strikes, and criticizing the Syrian regime.
🔻Eekad’s analysis sheds light on a digital and media campaign that coincided with the Israeli escalation in Suwayda, revealing the strategies used by accounts affiliated with Iran to support Israeli discourse online. It also uncovers the veiled messages in Hebrew newspapers that justified Israeli intervention in southern Syria.
❓But where were these bot farms active? How did they respond to the escalations? And how did the Hebrew press justify Israel’s attack?
#OpenProbe🧵| Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran’s former Shah, has re-emerged at the center of a tightly orchestrated media and political campaign—backed by U.S. political figures, promoted by Israeli media outlets, and amplified through bot networks and cross-border Telegram channels.
✔️An investigation by Eekad revealed that this campaign is far from spontaneous. Instead, it is the result of a calculated effort to rebrand Pahlavi and position him as a ready-made alternative to Iran’s current regime.
✔️Eekad’s team exposed Israeli-led amplification efforts, covert coordinated Telegram groups involving Iranian and foreign activists posting in both Persian and English, and a consistent alignment between Pahlavi’s messaging and Israel’s official narrative, which is further reinforced by statements from U.S. political figures.
#OpenProbe🧵| While seeking empathy in Western capitals, Israel employs a markedly different approach in its messaging across the Arab world. An investigation by Eekad uncovers that this stark contrast is no coincidence. Instead, it exposes a deliberate media strategy orchestrated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), which leverages a network of coordinated fake accounts and bot farms to influence public opinion and garner favorable international support.
#OpenProbe🧵| Israeli spyware is targeting Arab smartphone users through deceptive sponsored advertisements on social media. Eekad’s investigation uncovers tens of thousands of such ads, systematically disseminated by pages operated from within Israel as part of a coordinated cyber campaign.
✔️Although these ads appear to be routine promotional content, they are, in fact, engineered to covertly compromise mobile devices and extract sensitive personal data, often without any user interaction or visible trace.
✔️This probe delves into the technical infrastructure behind the campaign, revealing the tactics used in its execution with such precision and widespread reach, targeting Arabs across social media.
#OpenProbe🧵| Eekad's investigation uncovers a troubling reality: Arab soldiers—some of whom are Bedouins from the Negev serving in the IDF—have played a direct role in military operations in Gaza, some of which have resulted in civilian casualties. Disturbingly, several of these soldiers have publicly documented and celebrated their crimes on social media.
✔️Eekad tracked members of the Desert Reconnaissance Battalion (DRB), also known as Unit 585, a unit within the IDF composed primarily of Bedouin recruits. This investigation reveals their identities, documents their roles in Gaza, and exposes the crimes they have shared online.
#OpenProbe🧵| The recent attacks on the Palestinian town of Huwara were far from spontaneous or unplanned. Eekad’s investigation reveals that these assaults were orchestrated by a coordinated network operating from within the Yitzhar settlement, which surrounds Huwara.
🔻For the first time, Eekad has identified key figures who organized, incited, and supported these attacks—individuals who have largely remained hidden from public scrutiny.
❓But who led these attacks? What ties do they have to the Israeli government? How has Yitzhar become a hub for extremist operations? And who is enabling this escalation of violence?
#OpenProbe🧵| While global focus remains on the war in Gaza, a quieter yet equally consequential shift was unfolding in the West Bank, largely overlooked by international media.
✔️Among the towns and cities Eekad monitored over several months, Huwara emerged as a focal point. Strategically located along the main route connecting the northern and southern West Bank, the town has seen rapid and notable developments.
✔️Based on satellite imagery, this investigation reveals Israel’s strategy to reshape Huwara into a model for gradually annexing parts of the West Bank and isolating Palestinian communities through expanding settlement infrastructure.
✔️So, what are Israel’s long-term objectives in the West Bank? And what evidence has Eekad uncovered?
#OpenProbe🧵| Israeli soldiers took pride in pointing their weapons at the heads of children and women, smiling as they burned down homes. In even more harrowing scenes, Palestinian detainees were carried in a bulldozer blade, leaving their fates uncertain.
🔻These are just a few examples of the crimes committed by the Givati Patrol in Gaza, with evidence implicating everyone from the highest command to the soldiers on the ground.
#OpenProbe🧵| Pro-Assad military groups, known for their persecution of Syrians and the documentation of their own crimes while serving in the most brutal divisions of the ousted Assad regime, are now resurfacing. These factions have established ties to the “Military Council for the Liberation of Syria,” which has launched attacks against the new Syrian government in Syria's coastal region.
🔻In this second part of our investigation into the Assad regime loyalists who participated in the armed resurrection against the Syrian government, we unravel previously unreported insights that shed light on their current activities. We aim to detail how these individuals might have been involved in recent military operations in Coastal Syria and their connections to those orchestrating these actions.
❓But who are these key individuals? To which militias do they belong? What evidence exists regarding their crimes? And how are they linked to unfolding developments?
#OpenProbe🧵| Recent attacks on the Syrian coast have escalated as remnants of Assad’s loyalist forces regroup and criminal networks reemerge. In response, Eekad has closely monitored these developments using Geolocation-Based Social Media Intelligence..
🔻Our investigation has uncovered a network of fighters affiliated with the Assad regime that continues to operate in the shadows, fueling the latest clashes.
❓But who are the key members of this network? What roles have they played in the recent attacks? And what evidence links them to the former Assad leadership?
#OpenProbe🧵| A video attributed to Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), in which a group threatens to burn a church in Paris, has been rapidly disseminated by suspicious accounts across social media. However, a closer examination reveals an alarming resemblance to a previous video falsely linked to Hamas, suggesting that the same narrative is being replayed using a different target.
🔻Through technical and digital analysis, Eekad has determined that these clips are fabricated and linked to Israeli and far-right bot networks. Even more astonishingly, both videos feature the same individual.
❓But what are the similarities between both videos? What methods were employed to promote them? And what indicators of fabrication did Eekad uncover in the HTS-attributed clip?
#OpenProbe🧵| Since the fall of the Assad regime, Russia has been reallocating its military assets across the region. While Moscow’s influence is waning in some areas, it is expanding in others, with ongoing military flights playing a vital role in supplying Libyan bases with Russian weapons.
✔️In this investigation, Eekad uncovers how Russia is reshaping its strategy through intensive military shipping operations, leveraging new routes created in response to the evolving situation in Syria.
✔️But how is Moscow shifting its influence from Syria to Libya? How is it maintaining its foothold in the Mediterranean? What are the implications for its African Corps? Most importantly, what comes next after Syria?
#OpenProbe🧵| Eekad has uncovered compelling evidence implicating the Assad regime in crimes committed within the Red Wing of Sednaya Prison, mainly through the discovery of mass graves and bags used for disposing of bodies. This investigation extends to similar findings in another prison section, known as the "White Wing."
✔️But what evidence exists regarding the mass killings perpetrated by the regime? How did we uncover a large cemetery near Sednaya, and how does its excavation correlate with the reported increase in deaths?
#OpenProbe🧵| Satellite images expose evidence of the Assad regime's crimes at Sednaya Prison, showing graves dug by jailers to hide the bodies of those they tortured or executed. This disturbing evidence underscores a significant rise in deaths following Syria’s civil war.
✔️Eekad's analysis of satellite imagery has identified mass graves excavated by the Assad regime around this infamous prison.
❓But where are these graves located? How did operations intensify after the revolution, and what explains the increasing number of body bags discovered in satellite pictures?
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