美国参议员克里斯·范霍伦周五呼吁参议院就美国驻以色列大使馆涉嫌“掩盖”被占领约旦河西岸美国人遇害信息一事举行听证会。
US Sen. Chris Van Hollen on Friday called for a Senate hearing into an alleged “cover-up” by the US Embassy in Israel on information about the killings of Americans in the occupied West Bank.
“美国驻以色列大使馆正在隐瞒关于美国公民遇害的信息，”范霍伦在美社交媒体平台发布的视频信息中表示。这位民主党参议员称，他和30多位同事于3月曾致信美国国务卿马尔科·鲁比奥和驻以色列大使迈克·哈克比，内容关乎纳斯鲁拉·阿布·西亚姆的遇害案，这位来自费城的19岁巴裔美国人是过去四年来在约旦河西岸被非法以色列占领者或以色列安全部队杀害的第九名美国公民。
“The American embassy in Israel is hiding information about the killing of American citizens,” Van Hollen said in a video message on US social media company The Democratic senator said he and more than 30 colleagues wrote to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee in March about the killing of Nasrallah Abu Siyam, a 19-year-old Palestinian-American from Philadelphia, who is the ninth US citizen killed in the West Bank by illegal Israeli occupiers or Israeli security forces during the last four years.
“大使哈克比及其联络人一直在掩盖这些信息，以保护（总理本雅明·）内塔尼亚胡政府，保护以色列政府，”他说。“我要求参议院外交关系委员会主席举行听证会并调查这一掩盖行为，”他补充道，指的是共和党参议员吉姆·里施。
“Ambassador Huckabee and his point person have been covering up this information to protect the (Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu government, to protect the government of Israel,” he said. “I’m demanding that the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hold a hearing and investigate this cover-up,” he added, referring to Republican Sen. Jim Risch.
范霍伦表示，上一届美国政府、即乔·拜登政府“完全未能为在约旦河西岸遇害的美国人伸张正义和追究责任”，而现任总统唐纳德·特朗普的政府现在则在“为以色列政府掩盖真相”。“如果我们不为遇害的美国公民挺身而出，只会表明我们无法为任何遭受不公正杀害的受害者挺身而出，无论是在约旦河西岸还是世界任何其他地方，”他说。
Van Hollen said the administration of the last US president, Joe Biden, “completely failed to get justice and accountability” for Americans killed in the West Bank, and that the administration of current President Donald Trump is now “covering up for the Israeli government.”“If we don’t stand up for American citizens killed, it just shows we can’t stand up for anybody who is the victim of unjust killings, whether on the West Bank or anywhere else in the world,” he said.
他的言论是在《纽约时报》周四援引美国官员和文件报道后发表的，报道称哈克比的高级顾问大卫·米尔斯特恩压制了一份关于这九起遇害案调查进展的大使馆报告。哈克比否认了该报道，告诉该日报他将“绝对反驳”其内容。
His remarks came after the New York Times reported Thursday, citing US officials and documents, that David Milstein, a senior adviser to Huckabee, suppressed an embassy report on the status of investigations into the nine killings. Huckabee denied the report, telling the daily that he would “categorically refute” its elements.