Analyst News

28/08/2025

Sudan is facing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises: tens of thousands killed, more than 10 million displaced and hunger spreading rapidly. Earlier this year, the United States cut 83% of its aid to Sudan, shutting down USAID programs and forcing community kitchens to close.

With international relief blocked, Sudanese families are turning to crowdfunding for survival — raising money online for food, medicine and evacuations. But while digital donations offer a lifeline, they’re hampered by fees, scams, and delays.

Even so, these fragile campaigns remain one of the only ways to bypass aid blockages and reach people directly.

📲 Read the full story at AnalystNews.org.

📸: Reuters

24/08/2025

“The Gaza famine is the world’s famine.”

Speaking after the release of the IPC Famine Review Committee report confirming famine in Gaza, U.N. humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher stressed that this crisis belongs to all of us. Food is piled up at Gaza’s borders, blocked by Israeli obstruction, while children starve within meters of supplies.

Fletcher warned that this is a 21st century famine — not a natural disaster but one carried out with military technology and political complicity.

“Everyone owns this,” he said. The Gaza famine will be remembered not just for how it was created, but for what the world did — or failed to do — as it unfolded.

21/08/2025

Ukraine and Gaza expose the collapse of the postwar international order, says political scientist C. J. Polychroniou. International law has proven powerless, the U.N. irrelevant and Western powers morally bankrupt.

📲 Read the full interview at AnalystNews.org.

📸: Reuters/Al Drago

15/08/2025

Historian Rashid Khalidi pushes back on the claim that Israel is “the only democracy in the Middle East.”

In an Aug. 5 interview with , he called Israel an aggressor state that has attacked multiple Middle Eastern capitals in the past 40 years, oppressed Palestinians since 1948 — and done so with U.S. backing.

Because of that support, Khalidi said, the United States shares responsibility for the war crimes now unfolding in Gaza.

14/08/2025

End the weaponization of aid.

More than 100 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) published a joint letter Thursday warning that Israel’s new rules for charities could ban them from operating in Gaza — while a five-month blockade has already stopped vital food, medicine and hygiene supplies from entering.

Under the rules, aid groups must hand over private donor information and full Palestinians staff lists, despite the fact that 98% of aid workers killed since the war in Gaza began were Palestinian. NGOs say this requirement puts lives at direct risk.

With famine spreading, the joint letter demands an end to the weaponization of aid, protection of NGO independence and the opening of all land crossings for unconditional humanitarian delivery.

📲 Read more at AnalystNews.org.

11/08/2025

“If Israel can kill the most prominent Gazan journalist, it can kill anyone.” 

Israel killed Anas Al-Sharif, 28, one of Al Jazeera’s leading correspondents, in a targeted strike on a media tent near Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Sunday. He died alongside correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliw.

In July, the (CPJ) warned Israel was targeting Al-Sharif in a smear campaign. On Sunday, Israel took credit for the killing, accusing him — without evidence — of leading a Hamas cell.

“Israel has a longstanding, documented pattern of accusing journalists of being terrorists without providing any credible proof,” CPJ said in a statement.

Since Oct. 7, 2023, Israel has killed over 200 journalists in Gaza — more than in the U.S. Civil War, both World Wars, Korea, Vietnam, both Yugoslav wars and the post 9/11 Afghanistan war combined.

“If Israel can kill the most prominent Gazan journalist, it can kill anyone,” said CPJ’s Sara Qudah. “These deadly attacks on journalists, and censorship in Israel and the West Bank, are a deliberate, systematic attempt to cover up Israel’s actions. Deliberately targeting journalists is a war crime. This massacre must end.”

11/08/2025

“This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing.”

A new report from Médecins Sans Frontières / MSF accuses the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation of turning food distribution sites into “a laboratory of cruelty.”

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10/08/2025

Amid a global cost‑of‑living crisis, Western leaders are more concerned about enriching their defense industries than meeting their citizens’ basic needs. Instead of learning from the horrors of past conflicts, leaders driven by ego, corruption and self‑interest weaponize military power to hold onto office, sacrifice truth for propaganda and prioritize personal legacy above human life.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exemplifies this trend: facing corruption charges at home, his aggression across the Middle East has less to do with Israel’s security and more to do with ego and self‑preservation. As Bill Clinton once noted, Netanyahu has long wanted to fight Iran because that way he can stay in office forever.

The result: a world pushed closer to catastrophic war.

📲Read the full analysis at AnalystNews.org

📸: REUTERS

08/08/2025

How does Israel pay for its ever-expanding wars?

Over the last two years, Israel has waged simultaneous military operations from Gaza to Lebanon to Yemen. But as journalist Andrea Umbrello reports, Israel’s bombs don’t pay for themselves.

Since October 2023, Israel has raised at least $19.4 billion through government bonds marketed worldwide — underwritten by Wall Street giants like Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Barclays and Bank of America.

These “war bonds” are snapped up by investors, often oversubscribed five to one, turning mass violence into a booming financial product. As economist Shir Hever warns: “Those who buy them are becoming complicit in crimes against humanity and war crimes committed by Israel.”

Israel’s wars are not just military — they’re financial. “Behind each bomb is an investment flow. Behind each raid, a market push,” writes Umbrello.

📲Read the full analysis at AnalystNews.org

📸: REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

07/08/2025

Gaza’s food system has been obliterated. 

A new report from the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization and the U.N. Satellite Center paints a devastating picture:

🚫More than 86% of cropland is damaged
🔒12.4% is undamaged but inaccessible 
🔻Only 1.5% is accessible and intact

That’s down from 4% in April — a stark sign that Israel has continued targeting Palestinian farmland since its full blockade in March, cutting off aid and trapping 2 million starving people.

Before Oct. 7, 2023, Gaza was a thriving agricultural hub. Farmers grew citrus, olives, strawberries, wheat and almonds — feeding the local population and supporting nearly a quarter of Gaza’s people. Agriculture made up about 10% of the economy.

Since then, Israel has deliberately targeted Gaza’s food sources: orchards, greenhouses, farmland and fishers — weaponizing hunger in a region already on the edge of famine.

📸 via Reuters

07/08/2025

80 years ago today, the United States dropped the first nuclear bomb on Hiroshima.

Now, one of its last survivors wants the world to wake up to the growing nuclear threat.

Read:

78 years after the first atomic bomb, a Japanese grandmother worries her story will be forgotten — and that the next generation will pay the horrific price.

06/08/2025

For two years, Palestinians in Gaza begged for food, water, and medicine — only to be met with silence, or worse, euphemisms.

Now headlines say “famine” and “genocide.” But as Ahmad Ibsais writes in a powerful new essay, this isn’t conscience. It’s cover.

“The rhetoric is changing not because the suffering has worsened, but because the engineers of this catastrophe have found safer ground,” he argues. “Famine lets them send aid without admitting harm, grieve publicly without calling out the inflictors. Genocide demands truth and accountability.”

📲Read the full essay at AnalystNews.org.

📸: Saeed Jaras