「やつらにとどめを」ヘイリー元米国連大使、イスラエル軍砲弾に文字

【ワシントンＡＦＰ＝時事】元米国連大使のニッキー・ヘイリー氏が、イスラエル軍の砲弾に「やつらにとどめを」の文字を書く様子を撮影した画像が拡散している。（写真は元米国連大使のニッキー・ヘイリー氏）
　画像は、訪問先のイスラエル北部、レバノンとの国境地帯で撮影された。同行したイスラエルのダニー・ダノン前国連大使（現国会議員）が撮影し、２８日にＸ（旧ツイッター）に投稿された。
　ダノン氏は、「『やつらにとどめを』。これは友人であるニッキー・ヘイリー元国連大使が書いたものだ」と説明。画像には、しゃがんだヘイリー氏が紫のマーカーペンで砲弾に文字を書く様子が捉えられている。
　タカ派として知られるヘイリー氏はドナルド・トランプ政権下で国連大使を務め、ダノン氏とも任期が重なった。今年の米大統領選の共和党候補者指名争いに挑んだが、トランプ氏優勢の前に３月に撤退。先週には、大統領選では「トランプに投票する」と表明していた。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/05/30-16:47）

Former US presidential hopeful Nikki Haley has been photographed writing Finish Them on an Israeli shell as she toured sites near the northern border with Lebanon.
The photograph was posted on X on Tuesday by Danny Danon, a member of the Israeli parliament and former ambassador to the United Nations, who was accompanying Haley on her visit.
'Finish Them'. This is what my friend the former ambassador Nikki Haley wrote, Danon said in his post that showed a kneeling Haley writing on a shell with a purple marker pen.
Haley was a hawkish UN envoy under Donald Trump, and her term overlapped with Danon.
The Gaza war was sparked by Hamas's October 7 attack on southern Israel, which resulted in the deaths of 1,189 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on the latest Israeli official figures.
Militants also took 252 hostages, 121 of whom remain in Gaza, including 37 the army says are dead.
Israel's retaliatory offensive has killed at least 36,096 people in Gaza, mostly civilians, according to the territory's health ministry.
Haley, 52, abandoned her White House bid in March after heavy defeats in Republican primary contests to Trump, and last week said that she would vote for him in the election.
Trump has ruled her out of contention to be his vice president, but she is a potential presidential runner in 2028.
The White House said Tuesday that President Joe Biden has no plans to change his Israel policy following a deadly weekend strike on Rafah but that he is not turning a blind eye to the plight of Palestinian civilians.