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Yasmine El-Sabawi

Washington, D.C., United States

Reporter and Producer at Middle East Eye

Articles

  • 1 week ago | middleeasteye.net | Yasmine El-Sabawi |Andreas Krieg |Mohammad H. Eslami

    "This war isn't about Iran's nuclear weapons for Israel, it is about one thing: regime change. Hear me now: this is not going to stop at some bombing campaigns around Iran's nuclear programme. That's just the appetiser, not the entree... Does America really want to be Israel's dance partner to this siren song?"If those words sound like they came from a progressive, Bernie Sanders-aligned, anti-imperial voice, they did not.

  • 2 months ago | middleeasteye.net | Yasmine El-Sabawi

    Appeals judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday ordered a lower panel to reconsider Israel’s objections to the court’s jurisdiction over arrest warrants issued against Israeli leaders last year. The appeals chamber said the court had not properly weighed challenges by Israel to its jurisdiction and the legality of arrest warrant requests against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for their conduct of the Gaza war.

  • 2 months ago | middleeasteye.net | Yasmine El-Sabawi |Marco Carnelos

    US President Donald Trump's private appeal to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei - while publicly threatening all-out war - may now be paying off. For the first time since a brief attempt in 2021 under former president Joe Biden, the US and Iran will be engaging in supposedly "indirect" talks that could quickly become "direct", depending on whose narrative you accept.

  • 2 months ago | middleeasteye.net | Yasmine El-Sabawi

    Just a month after it was revealed that the US held direct talks with Hamas - a move that reportedly outraged the Israelis - the Trump administration is now beginning direct high-level talks with Iran, the president said on Monday. Sitting alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a longtime advocate of military operations against Iran's nuclear facilities, Trump made the surprise announcement to reporters gathered in the Oval Office at the White House.

  • 2 months ago | middleeasteye.net | Yasmine El-Sabawi

    The Ministry of Interior in Gaza on Wednesday said it was mourning the deaths of two members of the police force after they were killed in an Israeli air strike. "We mourn the martyrdom of Captain Mureed Mohammed Farjallah and Lieutenant Younis Mohammed al-Masharfa, who were killed in an Israeli bombardment targeting a group of police officers and personnel in Deir al-Balah," the statement said. "Five other police personnel were injured.