WEST BANK: ISRAELI FAMILIES FROM OUTSIDE WEST BANK MOVE INTO TENTS NEAR A JEWISH SETTLEMENT TO PROTEST AGAINST DISENGAGEMENT

Record ID: 400125

  • Title: WEST BANK: ISRAELI FAMILIES FROM OUTSIDE WEST BANK MOVE INTO TENTS NEAR A JEWISH SETTLEMENT TO PROTEST AGAINST DISENGAGEMENT
  • Date: 16th June 2005
  • Summary: (BN14) SANUR SETTLEMENT, WEST BANK (JUNE 14, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. SLV TENTS IN JEWISH SETTLEMENT; SLV PEOPLE PUTTING UP TENTS; MV MAN HAMMERING TENT PIN INTO GROUND; MV MAN PUTTING UP TENT (6 SHOTS) 0.30 2. SCU SIGN ON TENT READING (HEBREW): "WELCOME, POLLACK FAMILY." / PAN TO FAMILY IN TENT 0.37 3. MV MAN TAKING OUT WEEDS FROM OUTSIDE HIS TE
  • Embargoed: 1st July 2005 13:00
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  • Location: SANUR SETTLEMENT, WEST BANK
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA3J325NW0T4MWXLSKOPOPRT7PS
  • Story Text: Israeli families from outside the West Bank move
    into tents near a Jewish settlement to protest against
    disengagement.




    A handful of Israeli families moved into tents in a
    Jewish settlement in the West Bank on Tuesday (June 14, 2005) in
    solidarity with settlers who will be forced to leave their
    homes in August according to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
    Sharon's "Disengagement Plan".

    Sharon plans to evacuate all Jewish settlers from four
    settlements in the West Bank and all settlements in the
    Gaza Strip in mid-August.

    The families decided to move from their homes in other
    parts of Israel and to set up camp in the settlement of
    Sanur to show settlers that they supported their fight
    against Sharon's evacuation plan.

    "We came here to say that we are staying forever. We
    know that it is hard to be staying here in this tent, but
    we know that if we will be here now we will change the
    evacuation from here and we will stay here forever," said
    one man who brought his family to live in a tent.

    Sharon's plan has received wide-spread opposition,
    especially from right-wing Jews who have threatened to put
    up a violent resistance in August.

    The evacuation is slated to begin on August 15 and will
    see the removal of all settlers and Israeli forces from
    Gaza and from from four West Bank settlements - Sanur,
    Homesh, Kadim and Ganim.

    Meanwhile, as Sanur's tent city was expanding, settlers
    from the town began to hold mass prayers for the evacuation
    not to take place.

    Thousands of settlers gathered to pray together and to
    brief one another on strategies to withstand the upcoming
    disengagement.

    Many settlers see the West Bank and Gaza Strip as Israel's by
    biblical birthright and say any withdrawal from
    occupied land would be a "reward for Palestinian
    terrorism." Security officials fear a hard core of settler
    could turn violent.


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