2006年VOA标准英语-Palestinians Protest Israeli Jail Siege

By Jim Teeple
Jerusalem
15 March 2006

Palestinian demonstrators shout slogans as they hold red flags of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, green Islamic flags and Palestinian flags in the West Bank town of Ramallah Wednesday March 15, 2006   
  
Palestinians staged a general strike and Israelis issued a security alert Wednesday, one day after Israeli troops laid siege to a prison in the West Bank city of Jericho and captured a Palestinian militant¹.  Palestinian militants² on Wednesday released all of the hostages who were seized on Tuesday in the Palestinian territories in retaliation³ for the prison siege. 

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Shops, schools and offices were closed throughout the Palestinian territories in protest against Israel's siege of the Jericho jail and the capture of Ahmed Sadaat, the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and several associates.  The militants were being held at the jail after the P.F.L.P. claimed responsibility for the assassination⁴ of Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi in 2001.  
Touring the badly damaged Jericho facility on Wednesday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called the Israeli action a crime.

Mr. Abbas called the raid an insult to the Palestinian people and said British and U.S. inspectors⁵ at the jail had cooperated with Israeli authorities, a charge all three countries strongly deny. 

The militants had been in detention⁶ under an unusual arrangement agreed to by Israel, the United States and Britain, which allowed for the militants to be in Palestinian custody⁷ at the jail -- their incarceration⁸ monitored by U.S. and British officials.  After British and U.S. monitors vacated the facility, citing security concerns, Israeli forces laid siege to the jail.  

Israeli cabinet minister Zeev Boim says Israel decided⁹ to act after it appeared to Israeli authorities that President Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, would release the militants.

"Unfortunately when Hamas came to power, after the last elections took place, the situation changed and even President Abu Mazen admitted he was ready to release these murderers," Mr. Boim said.

In his first public comments on the issue, Israel's acting¹⁰ prime minister, Ehud Olmert, said Wednesday that Ahmed Saadat and his associates, as well as another Palestinian linked to a massive arms shipment to the Palestinians that was intercepted¹¹ at sea by Israel in 2002, will now be put on trial in Israeli courts. 

1 militant   

adj.激进的，好斗的；n.激进分子，斗士

参考例句：

• Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
• He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。

2 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• 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。

3 retaliation   

n.报复，反击

参考例句：

• retaliation against UN workers 对联合国工作人员的报复
• He never said a single word in retaliation. 他从未说过一句反击的话。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 assassination   

n.暗杀；暗杀事件

参考例句：

• The assassination of the president brought matters to a head.总统遭暗杀使事态到了严重关头。
• Lincoln's assassination in 1865 shocked the whole nation.1865年，林肯遇刺事件震惊全美国。

5 inspectors   

n.检查员( inspector的名词复数 )；（英国公共汽车或火车上的）查票员；（警察）巡官；检阅官

参考例句：

• They got into the school in the guise of inspectors. 他们假装成视察员进了学校。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Inspectors checked that there was adequate ventilation. 检查员已检查过，通风良好。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 detention   

n.滞留，停留；拘留，扣留；(教育)留下

参考例句：

• He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
• He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。

7 custody   

n.监护，照看，羁押，拘留

参考例句：

• He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
• He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。

8 incarceration   

n.监禁，禁闭；钳闭

参考例句：

• He hadn't changed much in his nearly three years of incarceration. 在将近三年的监狱生活中，他变化不大。 来自辞典例句
• Please, please set it free before it bursts from its long incarceration! 请你，请你将这颗心释放出来吧！否则它会因长期的禁闭而爆裂。 来自辞典例句

9 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

10 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

11 intercepted   

拦截( intercept的过去式和过去分词 )； 截住； 截击； 拦阻

参考例句：

• Reporters intercepted him as he tried to leave the hotel. 他正要离开旅馆，记者们把他拦截住了。
• Reporters intercepted him as he tried to leave by the rear entrance. 他想从后门溜走，记者把他截住了。