イスラエル／パレスチナ和平

Gaza under intense bombardment
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4910810.stm

Relatives mourn an eight-year-old Gazan girl killed this week.
親類が今週殺された８歳のガザの少女は嘆き悲しみます。

On a ridge just outside the Gaza Strip the dark green camouflaged
weapons of the Israeli army are firing round after round.
Loud booms echo across the dusty fields.
ガザ地区のすぐ外の丘の上にイスラエル軍の黒い緑にカモフラージュされた
兵器はラウンドからラウンドへと次々発砲しています。
爆音がほこりまみれのフィールドの向こう側に反響します。

A few miles away, inside the Gaza Strip,
there are tractors ploughing the fields.
数マイル離れて、ガザ地区の中に、平地を耕しているトラクターがあります。

Then an Israeli artillery shell whistles overhead.
それからイスラエル軍の砲弾が頭上に響きます。

There is a loud explosion as the shell hits the ground.
A cloud of dust is thrown up.
砲弾が着弾する時、爆発があります。
ほこりが舞い上がります。

The shell lands just a few metres away from a farmer.
He emerges from the dust, and gets back to his work.
砲弾は農民からたった数メートルの所に着弾します。
彼はほこりから現れて、そして仕事に戻ります。

Israel is targeting the open areas used by Palestinian militants,
but even one of the world's most modern armies makes mistakes.
イスラエル軍はパレスチナ人過激派グループによって使われるエリアに目標を
定めています。しかし世界の最も近代的な軍隊の一つでもミスをします。

I was in Beit Lahiya a few days ago just after the latest accident.
私は最近の事故の数日前に Beit Lahiya にいました。

An artillery round had crashed through the roof of a house.
砲弾が家の屋根を貫通していました。

As long as calm does not prevail on the Israeli side, neither will it do
so on the Palestinian side. Our operations are going to intensify
冷静がイスラエル側で広がっていない限り、
パレスチナ側でもそうしないでしょう。

(Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz)
Israel said Palestinian militants had fired a rocket
from the area two hours earlier. Its artillery had struck back.
One boy wept as he told me the rocket
had injured members of his extended family.
"About 10 were injured", he said.
Has anyone died, I asked.
"A girl, about eight years old."
The round killed eight-year-old Hadil Ghaben
-and injured her brothers and sisters.
The next day they sat at her funeral,her three-year-old sister confused,
sombre, her face bandaged and scarred.
According to Palestinian medical sources, 40 Palestinians have been
injured in the last week and 90 children have been treated for shock.
Hadil was the second civilian killed in seven days
from the artillery bombardment.
Children hear the alarm when the rockets are fired
and they have 20 seconds to find a place to hide
ロケット弾が発射される時、子供達はアラームを聞きます。
そして彼らは隠れる場所を見いだす為に20秒

Penina Ragolsky：Israeli living near Gaza
Israel's shelling is becoming common place.
On average, 150 artillery rounds a day are being fired into Gaza.
Day and night, the sound booms across the city and the surrounding areas
.It echoes along the streets. Sometimes it shakes the buildings.
In one half-hour period, I counted at least 25 explosions.
"One of them went straight into our house,and from the explosion she was
killed," says Penina Ragolsky, of her son's girlfriend. "A lovely girl."
「一発が家の中に直接入りました。爆発で彼女は殺されました」と、
彼女の息子のガールフレンドのペニナ Ragolsky が言います。

Israel has recently been firing 150 shells into Gaza every day
Mrs Ragolsky lives across the front line,
in a small Israeli village close to Gaza.
Penina Ragolsky said the rockets come most days at the moment.