TAYBEH，约旦河西岸/耶路撒冷，10月18日 - 在以色列占领的约旦河西岸基督教巴勒斯坦城镇泰贝赫，美国外交官于周日访问了该地，此前两天，激进的以色列定居者对欧洲外交官和一名美国摄影记者发动了袭击。
TAYBEH, West Bank/JERUSALEM, Oct 18 - US diplomats visited a Christian Palestinian town in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Sunday following attacks by militant Israeli settlers on European diplomats and an American photojournalist in the previous two days.
美国国务院民主、人权和劳工事务助理国务卿赖利·巴恩斯、美国驻梵蒂冈大使布赖恩·伯奇以及其他若干外交官访问了拉丁修道院教堂，并预计将与泰贝赫基督教社区成员会面。
Riley Barnes, assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor, Brian Burch, US ambassador to the Holy See, and a number of other diplomats visited the Latin Convent church and were expected to meet with members of the Christian community in Taybeh.
比利时、法国和波兰外交官，以及一名法国市长和巴勒斯坦平民，于周六在泰贝赫附近遭到蒙面以色列定居者的袭击。
Belgian, French and Polish diplomats, along with a French mayor and Palestinian civilians, had been attacked near Taybeh on Saturday by masked Israeli settlers.
前一天，华盛顿邮报摄影记者海迪·莱文在另一处约旦河西岸村庄附近报道巴勒斯坦橄榄收获时被袭击，随后被送往医院接受治疗。
The previous day, Washington Post photojournalist Heidi Levine was taken to hospital after being assaulted while covering a Palestinian olive harvest near another West Bank village.
外交官们的访问与美国总统唐纳德·特朗普支持其盟友、以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡参加10月27日以色列议会选举的时间相吻合。
The diplomats' visit coincided with US President Donald Trump endorsing his ally, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for Israel's parliamentary election on October 27.
内塔尼亚胡对定居者暴力持审慎态度 特朗普今年表达了对定居点扩张的反对，但其政府对内塔尼亚胡的右翼、亲定居者政府施加的压力甚少，以促使其改变政策。
NETANYAHU CIRCUMSPECT ON SETTLER VIOLENCE Trump has this year expressed his opposition to settlement expansion, but his administration has put little pressure on Netanyahu's right-wing, pro-settler government to change its policy.
联合国机构和大多数国家认为，根据国际法，定居点是非法的，但以色列对此持否定态度，认为该领土存在争议而非被占领。
UN bodies and most countries deem the settlements illegal under international law, but Israel rejects this, viewing the territory as disputed rather than occupied.
虽然以色列外交部长吉迪恩·萨尔和以色列军队（国防军）都将对外交官的袭击归咎于“以色列骚乱者”，但内塔尼亚胡的联盟预计将失去执政多数，他对此表达得更为审慎。
While Foreign Minister Gideon Saar and the Israeli military (IDF) both blamed "Israeli rioters" for the attack on the diplomats, Netanyahu, whose coalition is projected to lose its governing majority, has been more circumspect.
他表示，这些外交官进入了一个“具有对抗历史的敏感区域，且未事先与国防军协调”，并且关于莱文被袭事件的事实“尚不清楚”。
He has said the diplomats entered a "sensitive area with a history of confrontations without prior coordination with the IDF", and that the facts of the attack on Levine are "unclear".
法国呼吁以色列当局逮捕周六的袭击者，并结束西岸的犯罪暴力，但截至周日，以色列当局尚未就这两起最新事件宣布任何逮捕行动。西岸约有50万定居者和至少300万巴勒斯坦人。
France urged Israeli authorities to arrest Saturday's attackers and to end criminal violence in the West Bank, but by Sunday there was no announcement from Israeli authorities of any arrests in either of the two latest incidents. The West Bank is home to some 500,000 settlers and at least 3 million Palestinians.
定居者对巴勒斯坦人的袭击正在激增，自9月27日以来至少已有170起袭击，据以色列人权组织Yesh Din称。记者、活动人士和外国观察员也成为目标。然而，以色列定居者的起诉仍属罕见。
Settler attacks on the Palestinians are surging, with at least 170 since September 27, according to Yesh Din, an Israeli human rights group. Journalists, activists and foreign observers have also been targeted. Yet prosecutions of Israeli settlers are rare.
周日，路透社看到一群至少10名戴面具、身穿黑衣的定居者向在巴勒斯坦西岸城镇萨利特附近采摘橄榄的巴勒斯坦农民和活动人士扔石头，导致农民逃离。以色列边防警察在现场，并向山丘方向发射了催泪瓦斯。
On Sunday, Reuters saw a group of at least 10 settlers, masked and dressed in black, hurling rocks at Palestinians and activists harvesting olives near the Palestinian West Bank town of Salfit, prompting the farmers to flee. Israeli border police were in the area and shot tear gas towards the hills.