Cate Brown
@catebrown12
international investigations @washingtonpost
McNally Capital, a Chicago-based private equity firm, as well as its subsidiaries, positioned themselves to profit off contracts with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, now the main source of food in #Gaza. A look at the network of 💸, w/ @karendeyoung1 wapo.st/410qmqP
As a longtime humanitarian who has battled famines and hunger crises, I fear that starvation in Gaza has now passed the tipping point and we are going to see mass-scale starvation mortality. A thread on famine momentum, famine response, and what it means for Gaza today.
Doctors and health officials report wave of hunger deaths in Gaza on.ft.com/46iUoK6
I’m so hungry, I'm not ashamed to say that . If you’re scrolling, PLEASE leave a dot . it's just a dot chuffed.org/project/133156…
UN officials say a WHO guesthouse was struck 3x before IDF entered, separating families, men from women. Men were strip-searched and interrogated at gunpoint, while women were forced to evacuate with their children. washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/…
2 UN guesthouses have been hit in Deir al-Balah, despite all parties to the conflict knowing the locations. One of the facilities was targeted by Israeli tank fire only 4 months ago, killing a staffer. UNOPS says there were 13 people there this time. No injuries reported.
Marah Maher lost both her legs when an Israeli airstrike hit her home in Zeitoun, Gaza. Months later, she’s living in Long Island learning to walk. A gorgeous profile of one woman, and the resilience of Gaza’s pediatric amputees, by Caitlin Gibson washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2025…
Our investigation into the Israeli airstrike on Evin Prison in Tehran — analysis of satellite imagery and videos shared to social media revealed damage in four areas of the complex, with structures nearly 2,000 feet apart in ruins. We verified the deaths of 43 prison staff…
Anybody who grew up or lives in New York can identify the New York in Zohran. His campaign was powered by a profound authenticity, an irrepressible love and respect for the city. He also carries with him a set of political, cosmopolitan values that connects three continents. In…
There was no New York Jewish consensus against @ZohranKMamdani. According to polls, he ran 2nd among Jewish voters. He became part of the ongoing--and escalating--American Jewish civil war over Israel peterbeinart.substack.com/p/what-zohrans…
3/4 of NATO's member states will have to double+ their defense spending to meet the new 2035 targets, first suggested by President Trump. A look at #NATOSummit commitments and how they line up against current spending w/@AdrianBlancoR 🎁wapo.st/3T9J37q

This is what I, and others, keep trying to explain. Most of the underground facilities, including near Natanz, Isfahan and Parchin are still there. cnn.com/2025/06/24/pol…
"The Israeli military must stop shooting at people trying to get food." The IDF has killed over 410 people trying to reach GHF distribution points, killed at least 93 people attempting to approach UN and other aid convoys, and injured at least 3,000 people. This must stop.
#Gaza: Desperate, hungry people continue to face the inhumane choice of either starving to death or risk being killed while trying to get food. The Israeli military must stop shooting at people trying to get food & allow the entry of humanitarian assistance into Gaza.
Exclusive: WaPo has obtained secret recording of Mossad call to top Iranian general: ‘You have 12 hours to escape’ washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
SCOOP, with @smekhennet and @yjtorbati washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
Israeli strikes destroyed the gate of Iran’s Evin prison Monday, where hundreds of dissidents are jailed outside of #Teheran. @MeirJa said the attacks on a key symbol of the regime were likely intended “to scare them or force a nuclear deal with Trump.” washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/…
(!) Trump announces that he ordered the bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites and the operation was completed — an act of war aimed at eliminating Iran’s nuclear program that draws the U.S. deeper into the Middle East and risks the lives of U.S. personnel in the region.
“Was it worth it? The bullets, the bodies, the crawl through death? This is how far we’ve fallen, begging for survival at the barrel of a gun.” Gazans tell @972mag what it’s like to find aid —-> 972mag.com/hunger-games-i…
The last time Iran was at war and being attacked in massive airstrikes was 1989 in the war with Iraq.
NEWS: Ali Shamkhani has been severely injured in a strike targeting his house and hospitalized. Mr. Shamkhani is currently spearheading nuclear talks committee appointed by supreme leader and is former secretary of National Security Council.