Synonyms for sieges
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1. List of paraphrases for "sièges":

   journals, seats

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1. Zeid Ra'Ad Al Hussein:

   The deliberate starvation of people is unequivocally forbidden as a weapon of warfare. By extension, so are sieges, which deprive civilians of essential goods such as food. And yet over 450,000 people are currently trapped in besieged towns and villages in Syria -- and have been, in some cases, for years, food, medicine and other desperately-needed humanitarian aid is repeatedly obstructed. Thousands of people may have starved to death.

2. Hilal Elver:

   Sieges in a number of governorates, including Aden, Al Dhali, Lahj and Taiz, have been preventing staple food items, such as wheat, from reaching the civilian population, while air strikes have reportedly targeted local markets and trucks laden with food items.

3. Spokesman Salim al-Muslat:

   We have come to Geneva to seek relief for our people by insisting U.N. Security Council resolution 2254 is implemented, which means humanitarian relief, the lifting of sieges, and the end of attacks on civilians, we are intensifying our efforts to ensure that action is taken to end the suffering in Syria.

4. El Hillo:

   Sieges are a terrible thing and that should not happen and when it happens people suffer and this is what we are seeing now with our own eyes. This is not social media circulating it, we are seeing it.

5. Issam Buwaydani:

   The biggest proof is that they continue to bomb Syrian cities and impose sieges on hundreds of thousands of unarmed civilians.