以色列強拆約旦河西岸非法猶太人定居點
Israeli police bulldozers plan to start knocking down dozens of homes Thursday after evicting about 50 Jewish families from an illegal settlement in the West Bank.
Several hundred protesters set up barricades and threw stones at police who came to carry out the court-ordered evacuation of Amona, a Jewish settlement northeast of Ramallah, the headquarters of the Palestinian authority.
幾百名抗議者設立了路障，並向執行法院命令清除阿馬納定居點的警察投擲石塊。阿馬納是巴勒斯坦權力機構總部拉馬拉東北部的一個猶太定居點。Angry protesters and settlers yelled at the police that "Jews don't expel Jews." About 20 officers were hurt.
憤怒的抗議者和定居者向警察喊道：“猶太人不要驅逐猶太人。”有大約20名警察受傷。
Most of the settlers left quietly, carrying their belongings, holding children by the hand. Some vowed to return.
大多數定居者帶着他們的物品，拉着孩子安靜離開。有些人發誓要回來。One day earlier, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved 3,000 new homes for the evacuated settlers and others elsewhere in the West Bank.
以色列總理內塔尼亞胡一天前批准了建造3000個新住所，提供給撤出的定居者和西岸其他地方的人。Amona is the largest of around 100 unauthorized outposts erected in the West Bank without permission but - until now - generally tolerated by the Israeli government.
阿馬納是未經批准在西岸建立的大約100個定居點中最大的一個，之前以色列政府對之抱以容忍態度。Palestinians say Jewish settlements on land they want as part of a future state are a major impediment to peace. Israel says the Palestinians' refusal to recognize the Jewish state is blocking Mideast peace.
巴勒斯坦人認爲，在他們希望是未來國土的部分地區興建的猶太定居點是以巴和平的主要障礙。以色列則說，巴勒斯坦人拒絕承認猶太國家是中東和平的阻礙。Israel was furious when the United States, under former President Barack Obama, abstained instead of vetoing a U.N. Security Council resolution in December calling the settlements illegal and demanding Israel stop building them. The new Trump White House has so far been silent on Israeli settlement construction, but Jewish settlers told reporters Wednesday they expect the new U.S. administration will not stand in the way of a new wave of settlements in the West Bank.
令以色列極爲不滿的是，美國前總統奧巴馬的政府就聯合國安全理事會12月通過的一項稱這些定居點爲非法，並要求以色列停止建設的決議投下了棄權票，而不是否決票。新上任的川普政府至今一直對以色列的定居點建設保持沉默，但猶太定居者們星期三對記者表示，他們期望新的美國政府不會阻撓在西岸建立新一輪定居點。
