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官员表示，美国特种作战部队派遣至少六架MQ-9「死神」无人机协助寻找人质，监控生命迹象和传输潜在线索给以色列国防军。（路透）

U.S. ‘Fusion Cells’ Assist in Israel’s Hunt for Hamas Leaders

美低调提供情报 助以缉捕哈玛斯领袖

Days after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, the Pentagon quietly dispatched several dozen commandos to Israel to help advise on hostage recovery efforts, U.S. officials said.

美国官员表示，哈玛斯2023年10月7日攻击以色列几天后，五角大厦悄悄派数十名突击队队员前往以色列，为营救人质提供建议。

Those troops from the Joint Special Operations Command were quickly joined by a group of intelligence officers, some working with the commandos in Israel and others back at CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.

来自美国联合特种作战司令部的部队，很快与一群情报官员汇合，他们有些人在以色列和突击队队员合作，其他人回到美国维吉尼亚州兰利的中央情报局总部。

For more than a year much of the attention, and criticism, around U.S. support for Israel has focused on the U.S.-made bombs and weaponry Israel has used to attack the Gaza Strip.

超过一年来，环绕美国支持以色列的关注和批评，大多着重以色列用来攻击加萨走廊的美制炸弹和武器。

But the intelligence assistance to Israel has also been crucial. U.S. intelligence helped locate the four hostages who were rescued by Israeli commandos in June.

但对以色列的情资协助也一直至关重要。美国情资单位协助发现四名人质，这些人六月被以色列突击队员救出。

And from nearly the beginning of the war, the U.S. military and intelligence cells were focused not just on looking for hostages, but also hunting for the top leaders of Hamas.

而且，几乎从战争一开始，美国军方和情资小组不仅专注寻找人质，也追捕哈玛斯高层领袖。

U.S. top brass is not claiming credit for the Israeli operation that killed Hamas’ leader Yahya Sinwar, an architect of the Oct. 7 attack. But they note that their intelligence aided the hunt.

以色列击杀哈玛斯领袖、10月7日突袭主谋辛瓦的行动，美国高层没有居功。但他们指出，他们的情资协助那场追捕行动。

Defense Department officials have insisted that they are not directly supporting Israeli military operations on the ground in Gaza, a campaign that has led to the deaths of tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians and reduced the territory to rubble.

国防部官员坚称，他们没有直接支持以军在加萨的地面军事行动。这场行动导致数以万计巴勒斯坦民众死亡，并使当地沦为废墟。

But the search for top Hamas leaders was different, officials said.

官员们说，寻找哈玛斯高层领袖就不同了。

U.S. officials said senior White House officials regularly met with CIA Director William Burns and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin about what more support the targeting cells might need to speed the hunt for Sinwar.

美国官员表示，白宫资深官员定期和中情局局长伯恩斯及国防部长奥斯丁会面，讨论目标小组可能的需求，以加速追捕辛瓦。

In the end it was a random Israeli unit on patrol in southern Gaza that discovered Sinwar.

最终，一支随机在加萨南部巡逻的以色列部队发现辛瓦。

Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, said Thursday that no U.S. forces had been directly involved in the operation that killed the Hamas leader. “This was an Israeli operation,” he said.

美国国防部发言人赖德周四表示，美军没有直接涉入杀害这名哈玛斯领袖的行动。他说：「这是以色列的行动。」

But, U.S. officials insist, the United States helped collect intelligence that helped the Israeli military narrow its search.

但美国官员坚称，美国协助收集情报，帮助以色列军方缩小搜索范围。

In the weeks after Hamas killed a group of hostages in the tunnels below Rafah in southern Gaza, U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies had focused on the area, believing that could be where Sinwar was hiding.

哈玛斯在加萨南部拉法地下隧道杀害一群人质数周后，美国和以色列情资当局关注该地区，认为这可能是辛瓦的藏身处。

文／Julian E. Barnes, Eric Schmitt and Helene Cooper　译／罗方妤