
Cate Brown
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international investigations @washingtonpost
Washington, DC
Joined December 2009
Okay I'm going to need someone to explain to me why Gianni Infantino, the head of FIFA, is at the Gaza ceasefire summit in Sharm
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“Everybody wants to go on the Board of Peace, so we’re probably going to enlarge it,” Trump said at the Egypt summit. “We’re going to get... the top leaders — they want to be on the Board of Peace.” Trump talks about his vision for post-war Gaza:
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President Donald Trump departed Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on Monday, after meeting with world leaders at a summit to discuss the future of Gaza. In an address to Israel’s Parliament to celebrate the...
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Israeli strikes have flattened at least 14 high-rise buildings in Gaza since Sept. 1. My colleagues @iHaZeMi @leloveluck spoke to former residents of these Gaza City homes. “It wasn’t just a building; it was our whole history,” Wissam Shublaq said. https://t.co/Z463SvFwIY
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This morning, as I watched the sunrise, a soldier approached me and threatened that if I continue to speak out against the occupation and document human rights violations, I will be evicted from my home or killed. I told him that I am not afraid — not of him, nor of his racist
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"sovereignty over the Gaza Strip belongs to the State of Palestine, and that the connection between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip must be achieved through Palestinian laws and government institutions, . within the framework of a single system and law"
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Scoop w/ @hollyotterbein: NYC Council member Chi Ossé, a close ally of Zohran Mamdani, has been privately discussing a run against Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), per 3 ppl familiar. Comes weeks before the mayoral election & Jeffries has not endorsed Zohran. https://t.co/URdaVBiJFD
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Just talking about a potential campaign could drive a further wedge between Mamdani — the democratic socialist in line to be New York's next mayor — and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)
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Ceasefire or not, thousands of Gazans will spend tonight in a tent. Some are burning plastic “to heat their macaroni”, others walked miles for water to drink. @MiriamABerger @leloveluck + Siham Shamalakh talked to Gazans about what it takes to survive. https://t.co/WnmF0jvpQn
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Tarpaulins and free slivers of earth are extremely rare as a quarter-million Palestinians flee Israel’s attack on Gaza City and crowd into pockets farther south.
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At age 15, Yaghi moved to Troy, New York to study English before enrolling in university. “My parents could barely read or write,” he told a representative from the Nobel committee. Now he's invented a series of molecular structures that can harvest water from thin air.
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U.S. chemist Omar Yaghi became the first Palestinian scientist to win a Nobel Prize today. The son of refugees, Yaghi's parents were forced out of Gaza in 1948 and raised him in Amman. “We were a dozen of us in one room, sharing it with the cattle..." https://t.co/yFfgeBMtiI
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Omar Yaghi, 60, an U.S. citizen born in Jordan, whose parents were Palestinian refugees, say he was raised with a dozen others in one room.
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Happening now: After the army raided my house, it’s now the settlers’ turn. Israeli settlers are throwing stones at my home and have tried to break in. There is no protection at all. I called the Israeli police , they can’t come was the answer. Mohammad who was arrested from my
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"The officers do not care if children die, the also do not care what it does to my soul. To them, I am just another tool." Reflections from IDF soldiers who've served in Israel's two-year war on Gaza --> https://t.co/SHo0t3s2Eq
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“We’ve been under British colonialism already,” said Mustafa Barghouti, general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative. “He has a negative reputation here. If you mention Tony Blair, the first thing people mention is the Iraq War.” https://t.co/EV36eTbuQp
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Blair is a key player in planning for the rebuilding and governance of the Gaza Strip if a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas is finally signed.
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WaPo brings receipts. Here's one of the children that @elonmusk and @marcorubio killed. https://t.co/NTMjIGF7Ui
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A Washington Post investigation found that $76mil dollars of USAID shipments were not delivered after President Trump suspended lifesaving aid. @mmkelly22 @joyceslee +co uncover how #USAID cuts have left people newly vulnerable to malaria and HIV. https://t.co/TFqWjvz8lH
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USAID antimalarial and HIV supplies valued at nearly $140 million were delayed in the first half of the year or not delivered at all due to the Trump administration’s foreign aid pause, The Post...
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Microsoft announced it is blocking Israel’s access to technology which allowed the mass surveillance of Palestinian civilians, following an investigation we wrote. The first time that a major US tech company sanctions the Israeli military for violating Palestinian rights >
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New: A wave of diplomats walkout in protest of Netanyahu’s speech at the UN
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Contrary to a statement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office, the loudspeakers from which the premier's UN speech will be broadcast -- ostensibly to Gazans -- were placed inside the Gaza Strip, and not only on the Israeli side of the border. The loudspeakers were
The Prime Minister's Office confirms ordering the IDF to broadcast Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the UN via loudspeakers to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip "As part of the public diplomacy effort, the Prime Minister’s Office instructed civilian entities, in
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