Israeli Army Expresses Regrets for Palestinian
时间：2019-01-03 作者：英语课 分类：VOA2004（上）--巴以冲突
Ross Dunn
Israel's Army expressed sadness Wednesday for the killing 1 of at least 10 Palestinians in southern Gaza. All the dead are reported to be under 18. More than 50 were wounded after an Israeli tank and a helicopter fired towards a crowd of Palestinian demonstrators in Rafah. The death toll 2 has risen to more than 30 since Israel launched a military incursion in the area to destroy weapons smuggling 3 tunnels and arrest Palestinian militants 4.
The Israeli Army released a statement Wednesday expressing deep sorrow over the loss of civilian 5 lives.
The statement says that the incident occurred as a crowd of demonstrators, organized by the Palestinian Authority, left central Rafah and marched towards Israeli forces stationed on the outskirts 6 of the town.
The Israeli Army says that as the demonstrators, with Palestinian gunmen among them, drew close to the Israeli troops, a single helicopter missile was fired as a warning into an open area.
Flares 7 were also fired from a helicopter but when the crowd kept marching towards them, the Israeli troops fired a machine gun and four tank shells at the wall of an abandoned structure.
The Israeli army statement says it is possible that the casualties were a result of the tank fire and investigations 9 are continuing.
The statement was released after Palestinian officials expressed their outrage 10 at the incident, calling it a massacre 11 and a war crime.
Palestinian Cabinet Minister Ghassan Khatib gave this reaction. "This most recent and most vicious Israeli crime of shelling by missiles a peaceful demonstration 12 is an indicator 13 of the real intentions of the Israeli Army which is simply trying to effect the maximum casualties of the Palestinian people regardless of whether they are civilians 14 are otherwise.”
But Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon's spokesman, Raanan Gissin, insists the Israeli army did not intentionally 15 fire on the Palestinian demonstrators. "Israel has no policy whatsoever 16 of shooting at the crowds of demonstrators, willfully and directly," he said. "Therefore we are conducting a very thorough investigation 8, almost like a police investigation, to find out what happened there."
Before the incident, Israeli officials said the operation in Rafah would continue until it destroyed all tunnels used to smuggle 17 weapons and explosives from neighboring Egypt.
But some Israeli commentators 19 say that the incident may force Israel to withdraw from the area sooner rather than later, for fear of drawing more condemnation 20 from the international community.
注释:
demonstrator [5demEnstreitE] n. 示威者
Rafah 加沙南部的拉法难民区
toll [tEul] n. 伤亡
incursion [in5kE:FEn] n. 袭击
smuggle [5smQ^l] n. 走私
release [ri5li:s] v. 发布
outskirts [5autsk\:ts] n. 边界
machine gun n. 机关枪
abandoned [E5bAndEnd] adj. 废弃的
outrage [5autreidV] n. 暴行
massacre [5mAsEkE(r)] n. 大屠杀
war crime 战争罪
vicious [5viFEs] adj. 罪恶的
indicator [5indikeitE] n. 指示
intention [in5tenFEn] n. 意图
maximum [5mAksimEm] adj. 最大限度的
regardless of 不管
willfully adv. 蓄意地
commentator 18 [5kCmenteitE] n. 评论员
- Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
- Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
- The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
- The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
- Some claimed that the docker's union fronted for the smuggling ring.某些人声称码头工人工会是走私集团的掩护所。
- The evidence pointed to the existence of an international smuggling network.证据表明很可能有一个国际走私网络存在。
- The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
- Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
- There is no reliable information about civilian casualties.关于平民的伤亡还没有确凿的信息。
- He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。
- Our car broke down on the outskirts of the city.我们的汽车在市郊出了故障。
- They mostly live on the outskirts of a town.他们大多住在近郊。
- The side of a ship flares from the keel to the deck. 船舷从龙骨向甲板外倾。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He's got a fiery temper and flares up at the slightest provocation. 他是火爆性子，一点就着。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
- He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。
- His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing. 他进行了深入彻底的调查，但没有发现什么。
- He often sent them out to make investigations. 他常常派他们出去作调查。
- When he heard the news he reacted with a sense of outrage.他得悉此事时义愤填膺。
- We should never forget the outrage committed by the Japanese invaders.我们永远都不应该忘记日本侵略者犯下的暴行。
- There was a terrible massacre of villagers here during the war.在战争中，这里的村民惨遭屠杀。
- If we forget the massacre,the massacre will happen again!忘记了大屠杀，大屠杀就有可能再次发生！
- His new book is a demonstration of his patriotism.他写的新书是他的爱国精神的证明。
- He gave a demonstration of the new technique then and there.他当场表演了这种新的操作方法。
- Gold prices are often seen as an indicator of inflation.黃金价格常常被看作是通货膨胀的指标。
- His left-hand indicator is flashing.他左手边的转向灯正在闪亮。
- the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
- At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。
- I didn't say it intentionally. 我是无心说的。
- The local authority ruled that he had made himself intentionally homeless and was therefore not entitled to be rehoused. 当地政府裁定他是有意居无定所，因此没有资格再获得提供住房。
- There's no reason whatsoever to turn down this suggestion.没有任何理由拒绝这个建议。
- All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you,do ye even so to them.你想别人对你怎样，你就怎样对人。
- Friends managed to smuggle him secretly out of the country.朋友们想方设法将他秘密送出国了。
- She has managed to smuggle out the antiques without getting caught.她成功将古董走私出境，没有被逮捕。
- He is a good commentator because he can get across the game.他能简单地解说这场比赛，是个好的解说者。
- The commentator made a big mistake during the live broadcast.在直播节目中评论员犯了个大错误。
- Sports commentators repeat the same phrases ad nauseam. 体育解说员翻来覆去说着同样的词语，真叫人腻烦。
- Television sports commentators repeat the same phrases ad nauseam. 电视体育解说员说来说去就是那么几句话，令人厌烦。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- There was widespread condemnation of the invasion. 那次侵略遭到了人们普遍的谴责。
- The jury's condemnation was a shock to the suspect. 陪审团宣告有罪使嫌疑犯大为震惊。