梅拉尼·利德曼、贾拉尔·布瓦伊泰尔 约旦河西岸佩特扎尔报道 —— 被占领的约旦河西岸的天然泉水和古代水池长期以来为人们提供了躲避酷热夏日的去处。它们也是巴勒斯坦社区的生命线，当地居民依靠这些水源发展旅游业和灌溉农田。
MELANIE LIDMAN, JALAL BWAITEL PETZAEL, West Bank — The natural springs and ancient pools of the occupied West Bank have long provided a respite from the oppressive summer heat. They also have been a lifeline for Palestinian communities, which rely on them for tourism and irrigation for their farmland.
但对于生活在这片领土上的280万巴勒斯坦人来说，这些泉水和蓄水的石池越来越难以触及，因为以色列定居点居民——在面临连任的强硬派政府鼓励下——加紧了夺取泉水和其他遗产地的努力。
But for the 2.8 million Palestinians who live in the territory, those springs and the stone reservoirs they fill are increasingly out of reach as Israeli settlers — encouraged by a hard-line government facing reelection — have stepped up efforts both to seize the springs and other heritage sites.
今夏发生的一个案例中，本应流向巴勒斯坦村庄法赛勒的天然泉水被非法引向附近的一座古代水池。引水者将水注入该池，并以罗马任命的犹太王希律的名字将其命名为新的旅游景点。
In one case this summer, water from a natural spring to the Palestinian village of Fasayil was illegally diverted to an ancient pool nearby. Whoever siphoned the water used it to fill up that pool, declaring it a new tourist attraction named after Herod, the Roman-appointed king of Judea.
20世纪90年代达成的协议显示，该水池位于C区，意味着处于以色列军方的全面控制之下。定居点监察组织“Kerem Navot”负责人德罗尔·埃特克斯的研究认定，该土地为私人所有。
Agreements reached in the 1990s indicate the pool is located in Area C, meaning it is under full Israeli military control. Research by Dror Etkes, who runs the settlement watchdog group Kerem Navot, determined the land was privately owned.
来自法赛勒的巴勒斯坦农民萨德·内梅尔表示，断水毁了他的农田，并称他的家族持有证明土地所有权的文件。以色列负责约旦河西岸民政事务的军事机构COGAT承认，水资源被“未经授权”引走，并表示将展开调查。
Palestinian farmer Saad Nemer, from Fasayil, said the water being cut off has devastated his fields, adding that his family has documents that prove ownership of the land. COGAT, Israel’s military body that oversees civil issues in the West Bank, acknowledged the water was diverted “without authorization” and said it would investigate.
约旦河西岸的其他游泳场所也成了冲突现场。上周，一名育有六子的以色列父亲在北部西岸的一处泉水边沐浴时，被一名巴勒斯坦人枪杀，当时他正与长子一起为赎罪日假期做准备。
Other swimming areas in the West Bank have also become sites of conflict. An Israeli father of six was shot and killed last week by a Palestinian at a spring in the northern West Bank, where he was bathing with his oldest son ahead of the Yom Kippur holiday.
以色列自1967年战争中从约旦和埃及手中夺取约旦河西岸领土（连同东耶路撒冷和加沙地带）以来，便一直占领该地区。此后，以色列在巴勒斯坦人寻求建立未来独立国家的土地上，建立了一个容纳超过50万以色列人的定居点网络。
Israel has occupied the West Bank since it captured the territory, along with east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, from Jordan and Egypt in the 1967 war. Since then, it has built a network of settlements for more than half a million Israelis on land Palestinians seek for a future independent state.
国际社会绝大多数认为这些定居点非法。本月早些时候，随着定居者暴力事件和其他导致巴勒斯坦人流离失所的行为激增，英国政府指责以色列对其所谓的“约旦河西岸地区对巴勒斯坦人的‘种族清洗’——由定居者恐怖分子实施”视而不见。
The international community overwhelmingly considers the settlements illegal. Earlier this month, during a rise in settler violence and other actions that have displaced Palestinians, the British government accused Israel of turning “a blind eye” to what it described as “ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in areas of the West Bank — perpetrated by settler terrorists.”
总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡谴责了暴力行为，但将其归咎于被占约旦河西岸的“极少数暴徒”，他称这些人对“守法的定居者公众”不公。
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned the violence but blamed it on a “handful of rioters” in the occupied West Bank he said do injustice to the “law-abiding settler public.”
据以色列人权组织“贝特塞勒姆”称，夺取和宣称遗产地的推动是这一更广泛努力的一部分，该组织在本月的一份报告中表示，此类指定被用来“提升以色列国和犹太人与约旦河西岸的历史、文化和宗教联系”。反对在以色列和巴勒斯坦领土上将考古学政治化的以色列组织“Emek Shaveh”的执行主任阿隆·阿拉德表示，定居者决定以希律王的名字命名法赛尔附近的水池，是试图将该遗址“打造”为犹太历史的一部分。
The push to take over and claim heritage sites is part of this wider effort, according to Israeli rights group B’Tselem, which said in a report this month that such designations are used to “elevate the historical, cultural, and religious ties of the State of Israel and the Jewish people to the West Bank.” The decision by settlers to name the pool near Fasayil after Herod was an attempt to “brand” the site as part of Jewish history, said Alon Arad, executive director of Emek Shaveh, an Israeli group that opposes the politicization of archaeology in Israel and the Palestinian territories.
考古学家从未研究过该遗址，因此其建造时间尚不清楚。据以色列民政管理局考古单位（管理约旦河西岸日常事务的军事分支机构）进行的发掘，该地区其他遗迹可追溯至公元前一世纪希律王统治时期。
Archaeologists have never studied the site, so it’s unclear when it was built. Other ruins in the area date to Herod’s reign in the first century B.C.E., according to excavations conducted by the archaeology unit of Israel’s Civil Administration, a branch of the military that manages day-to-day affairs in the West Bank.
10月初，犹太节日结束后，水池将被排干，以便政府考古学家对该遗址进行全面勘测，遗产部长阿米哈伊·埃利亚胡在接受美联社采访时表示。
At the beginning of October, after the Jewish holidays, the pool will be drained so that the administration’s archaeologists can complete a full survey of the site, Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu said in an interview with The Associated Press.
他赞扬了最初引水的团体，并表示政府已拨款约100万美元用于修复该遗址。这笔资金来自他所说的目前分配的至少1.66亿美元，用于约旦河西岸100多处他声称与犹太遗产相关的遗址的发掘和基础设施建设。
He praised the group that originally diverted the water and said about $1 million has been earmarked by the government to rehabilitate the site. That is out of at least $166 million he said is now allocated for excavations and infrastructure at more than 100 sites he claimed are connected to Jewish heritage in the West Bank.
埃利亚胡在参观位于佩察尔定居点附近的水池时说：“我们要把这里变成伊甸园。”他补充道：“不存在巴勒斯坦民族这回事”，随后跳入水中。
“We’ll turn this place into the Garden of Eden,” Eliyahu said during a visit to the pool, which is near the Petzael settlement. There is “no such thing as a Palestinian nation” he added, before leaping into the water.
在这片肥沃土地上争夺水资源的斗争，反映了对约旦河西银控制权的更广泛角逐，特别是约旦河谷。巴勒斯坦人视其为未来国家的“粮仓”，而以色列人则视其为保护东部边境的关键。
The struggle for water access in this strip of fertile land reflects a wider contest for control of the West Bank, and in particular the Jordan Valley, which Palestinians consider the breadbasket of their hoped-for future state and Israelis view as key to protecting their eastern border.
自1967年以色列控制该地区以来，巴勒斯坦人一直面临水资源短缺和限制。1990年代的临时和平协议承认了他们的水权，但维持了一套将主含水层约80%抽取水量分配给以色列使用的制度。
Palestinians have faced water shortages and restrictions since Israel took control in 1967. Interim peace accords in the 1990s recognized their water rights but preserved a system that allocated some 80% of water pumped from the main aquifer for Israeli use.
如今，定居者不断升级的袭击正在加剧这一问题。根据联合国人道主义事务协调厅7月的一份报告，2026年，定居者在巴勒斯坦社区损坏、摧毁或夺取了约160处供水和卫生设施，包括管道和蓄水池。
Now, soaring attacks by settlers are exacerbating the problem. Settlers have damaged, destroyed or seized approximately 160 water and sanitation structures, including pipelines and cisterns, in Palestinian communities in 2026, according to a July report from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
报告称，袭击者越来越多地针对共享水利基础设施，并切断了数个巴勒斯坦社区全部或大部分的供水。
The attackers are increasingly targeting shared water infrastructure and have disrupted supply to all or large parts of several Palestinian communities, the report said.
在约旦河谷的奥贾，定居者夺取当地天然泉水，迫使一些巴勒斯坦农民弃田而逃。
In Al Auja, in the Jordan Valley, the seizure by settlers of the local natural springs has forced some Palestinian farmers to abandon their fields.
穆拉德·朱巴，53岁，曾种植大量水果和蔬菜，包括哈密瓜、茄子、香蕉和西红柿。但定居者侵入后，骚扰居民并引走泉水，他说自己无法再种植。
Murad al-Juba, 53, once grew an abundance of fruit and vegetables, including cantaloupes, eggplant, bananas and tomatoes. But after settlers encroached, harassing residents and diverting the spring water, he said he has been unable to plant.
“所有这些农场都依赖这处泉水，但如今泉水没了，因为定居者占有了它，”朱巴说。
“All these farms depend on the spring, but today, the spring is gone, because the settlers took it,” Juba said.
最近，“定居者完全占领了”泉水瀑布，并将“该地区变成了准军事区”，市长哈尼·恩朱姆说，并补充说这对当地旅游业和农业造成了毁灭性打击。
More recently, “settlers have completely taken over” the spring’s waterfall and turned “the area into a quasi-military zone,” said mayor Hani al-Njoum, adding it has been devastating for local tourism and agriculture.
“这片土地曾经丰饶，”朱巴说。“如今，它成了沙漠。” 巴韦特尔从约旦河西岸的奥贾报道。
“This land was bountiful,” Juba said. “Today, it is a desert.” Bwaitel reported from Al Auja, West Bank.