Yezid Sayigh يزيد صايغ
@SayighYezid
Senior Fellow @CarnegieMEC. Posting about #ArabMilitary political/economic roles, #CivilMilitary relations. Views my own.
Fulfil international legal obligations to prevent, punish & end complicity in genocide. Apply immediate & comprehensive sanctions to a state committing war crimes. End the repression of your own citizens trying to stop the unimaginable horrors being inflicted upon the people…
The horror in Gaza must end. We're stepping up our humanitarian efforts with new healthcare, food and water for Gazans. We need an immediate ceasefire now, the release of all hostages and a surge in aid.
#France's "whip hand" over #Algeria? Not so fast. Algiers is flexing new muscles with record gas exports, diversified partners [Hello Italy!], and vital security leverage. The power dynamic is shifting. #Algeria #France My latest for @MiddleEastEye middleeasteye.net/opinion/france…
BBC host: ".. how long can people survive.. obviously people are appalled by the images we are seeing" Juliette Touma from UNRWA "We should be more than appalled. We've passed the threshold of being appalled many months ago... the people of Gaza are being deliberately starved"
"Gaza has become hell on earth. No one is spared — even aid workers are starving," UNRWA @JulietteTouma said reading a statement from @UNLazzarini at @UNGeneva press briefing. People in #Gaza are being shot while seeking food. Our staff are fainting from hunger and exhaustion.…
For anyone still calling Daniela Weiss a fringe radical—here she’s in the Knesset, flanked by ministers and MKs, at a forum called “Gaza Riviera: from idea to reality.” These are the most powerful officials planning Judenrein in Gaza and the West Bank. Anyone who claims this…
Says the foreign secretary of the country that is providing the weapons for Israel to commit these crimes against humanity. You really can’t make this up!
"I am concerned that there are crimes being committed against humanity." Foreign Secretary David Lammy tells @JackieLongc4 says "the situation on the ground has got worse" in Gaza, and that he condemns "grotesque scenes of children being shot dead".
2/ Israel denies the foreign press access to Gaza, and Israeli journalists are embedded in IDF units. Surely the EU has or can engage objective fact finders who are of unimpeachable reputation. It's a dangerous mission? The Latin and Greek Patriarchs of Jerusalem managed.
1/ At the very least, the EU could demand from Israel that a team of professionals be allowed to visit Gaza with no limitations on their mobility. Israel asserts that claims of famine, disease, and carnage are fabrications.
The killing of civilians seeking aid in Gaza is indefensible. I spoke again with @gideonsaar to recall our understanding on aid flow and made clear that IDF must stop killing people at distribution points. All options remain on the table if Israel doesn’t deliver on its pledges
Silencing voices. As if banning international media is not enough. Humanitarian workers are also banned when they report on atrocities committed in #Gaza & elsewhere in the occupied Palestinian territory. The denial of a visa to our colleague from @ochaopt is the latest in a…
Are Private Eye jokes now... criminal? PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested, bundled into a van and taken to the cells during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece…
EMERGENCY DEMO - SANCTIONS NOW Jews in the UK demand forceful action to stop Israel’s starvation, displacement & bombing of Palestinians in Gaza. Join us in London this Monday, 28 July from 5.30pm – or as soon as you can – at the UK Foreign Office, to make your voice heard.
It is so late, Ms Kallas. Only sanctions can stop Israel. Suspending the EU agreement with Israel is a must. Anything less will be just performance, which the millions of Europeans who are grieving for the genodice in Gaza, would much prefer being spared from.
The killing of civilians seeking aid in Gaza is indefensible. I spoke again with @gideonsaar to recall our understanding on aid flow and made clear that IDF must stop killing people at distribution points. All options remain on the table if Israel doesn’t deliver on its pledges
Smotrich on Army Radio now: I'm working meticulously the last two years in Judea and Samaria to implement de facto annexation. Slowly but surely, we'll get to formal annexation.
People in #Gaza, including UNRWA staff, are fainting due to starvation and severe hunger. People including children are dying from severe malnutrition. People are being starved. UNRWA alone has thousands of trucks in neighbouring countries waiting to enter Gaza – banned by…
So little, so late, President @vonderleyen : After you have given Israel 21 months a free pass in Gaza, it will take more than words to prevent Israel from completing its genocidal mission and overt ethnic cleansing campaign. And even more, to repair what's left of the EU…
Civilians cannot be targets. Never. The images from Gaza are unbearable. The EU reiterates its call for the free, safe and swift flow of humanitarian aid. And for the full respect of international and humanitarian law. Civilians in Gaza have suffered too much, for too long.…
My latest argues that the ceasefire may have stopped the shooting, but it’s no return to normal. Syria has changed at its core, and without tackling the underlying causes, this calm won’t hold. en.majalla.com/node/326545/po…
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.
Damascus is increasingly adopting a system of rule that combines centralized and localized forms of administration and security maintenance, an approach that seems suited to the needs of a country fractured by civil war. @GregoryPWaters discusses. carnegieendowment.org/research/2025/…
A few days ago, a journalist friend asked me why I had not commented on the atrocities committed in southern Syria. I have lived and breathed Syria for 15 years. But starting 2017, heartbreak, fatigue, distance, loss of contacts, lack of familiarity with the Islamist and…
Some accounts to follow for analysis, fact-checking, and general sanity amid Syria's fast-moving crisis and toxic stew of disinformation: @OAjjoub @putintintin1 @aljumhuriya_eng @RamiJarrah @Samy_Akil @ETANA_Syria @ajaltamimi @GregoryPWaters @VeSyriaE @CdricLabrousse
Some accounts to follow for analysis, fact-checking, and general sanity amid Syria's fast-moving crisis and toxic stew of disinformation: @OAjjoub @putintintin1 @aljumhuriya_eng @RamiJarrah @Samy_Akil @ETANA_Syria @ajaltamimi @GregoryPWaters @VeSyriaE @CdricLabrousse