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イスラエルが国連施設空爆
イスラエルによるレバノン攻撃で7月25日、レバノン南部の国連施設が空爆され、停戦監視要員が死亡した。
U.N. observers killed in Israeli attack
BEIRUT (AP) — As Israel continued to bomb southern Lebanon from the air July 25, an Israeli bomb destroyed a U.N. observer post on the border, killing three observers and leaving another feared dead
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said Israel appeared to have deliberately destroyed the site. He said that the post had been there for a long time and was marked clearly.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has since expressed "deep regret" over the killings and said the peacekeepers were killed mistakenly
World leaders meet in Rome
Top U.S. and European officials, meeting in Rome, agreed July 26 on urgent action to halt the fighting in Lebanon and on the creation of a multinational peacekeeping force
But the United States and Europe had clearly divergent views of what that means.
Most Europeans want Israel to stop its offensive against Hezbollah now and institute an immediate ceasefire
The United States, represented by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, wants to give Israel more time to pound the militia into submission as part of the wider war on terror.
The Rome conference, which included foreign ministers and senior officials from 15 nations, as well as Annan and representatives from the European Union and the World Bank, ended with little more than promises of aid and a declaration of "deep concern" for the high number of civilian casualties.
Death toll grows, mainly civilians
As of July 27, more than 420 people have been killed in Lebanon and 1,596 injured, most of them civilians.
Israeli bombing has forced an estimated 750,000 people in Lebanon to flee their homes. Many are trapped in combat areas.
On the Israeli side, 41 have been killed, more than half of them military, and around 300 civilians have been injured.
Fighting started with abductions
The fighting began July 12 when Shiite militant group Hezbollah, which has the moral support of Iran and Syria, captured two Israeli soldiers and killed eight in a cross-border raid.
Hezbollah has demanded talks for a prisoner exchange as well as an immediate ceasefire, but Israel, with apparent U.S. approval, will press on with the offensive.
Violence continues in Gaza
Meanwhile, in the Gaza Strip, another Israeli offensive continued. Israel has killed 141 Palestinians in a campaign to recover a soldier captured by Palestinian militants.
- observers
- 停戦監視要員
- post
- 施設
- on the border
- 国境線に面した
- U.N. Secretary General
- 国連事務総長
- appeared to 〜
- 〜したようだ
- deliberately
- 意図的に
- was marked clearly
- はっきり表示がついていた
- deep regret
- 深い遺憾の意
- peacekeepers
- 国連要員のこと
- Top U.S. and European officials
- 欧米の外交問題担当トップ
- urgent
- 緊急の
- halt
- 止める
- creation
- 創設
- multinational peacekeeping force
- 多国籍から成る平和維持部隊
- divergent
- 一致しない
- offensive
- 攻撃
- Hezbollah
- ヒズボラ(シーア派の武装組織)
- institute 〜
- 〜を実施する
- ceasefire
- 停戦
- Secretary of State
- 国務長官
- pound 〜 into submission
- 〜に猛攻撃を加えて降参させる
- militia
- ヒズボラのこと
- war on terror
- 対テロ戦争
- European Union
- 欧州連合
- World Bank
- 世界銀行
- civilian casualties
- 民間人の犠牲者
- are trapped in 〜
- 〜の中で身動きがとれずにいる
- combat areas
- 戦闘地域
- abductions
- 拉致
- moral support
- 精神的支援
- captured 〜
- 〜を捕らえた
- cross-border
- 国境線近くの
- raid
- 襲撃
- press on with 〜
- 〜を続行する
- Gaza Strip
- ガザ地区
- campaign
- 軍事行動