GAZA: SCUFFLES BREAK OUT AS ISRAELI FORCES ENFORCE ORDER TO SEAL OFF THE GAZA SETTLEMENT BLOC

Record ID: 400314

  • Title: GAZA: SCUFFLES BREAK OUT AS ISRAELI FORCES ENFORCE ORDER TO SEAL OFF THE GAZA SETTLEMENT BLOC
  • Date: 13th July 2005
  • Summary: (W3) KISSUFIM CROSSING, GUSH KATIF SETTLEMENT BLOC, GAZA STRIP (JULY 13, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. SV LORRY WITH HUGE BLOCKS PASSING 0.07 2. SV OF SOLDIERS IN AREA, GAZA COMMANDER DAN HAREL SPEAKING TO SOLDIERS 0.08 3. CU OF HAREL LOOKING AT ORDER TO SEAL OFF BLOC 0.17 4. SV OF SECURITY CHECKING VEHICLES 0.22 5. MCU (Hebrew) SOLDIE
  • Embargoed: 28th July 2005 13:00
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  • Location: KISSUFIM CROSSING, KFAR DAROM, GUSH KATIF SETTLEMENT BLOC, GAZA
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVA9NS5YQGJE0W2NENYD3D20B4S7
  • Story Text: Scuffles break out as Israeli forces enforce order
    to seal off the Gaza settlement bloc.



    Israel's army sealed off all Jewish settlements in
    occupied Gaza on Wednesday (July 13, 2005) to prevent an influx
    of rightist opponents of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza
    withdrawal plan set to begin next month.

    Sharon signed an order closing all 21 settlements to
    non-residents after ultranationalists announced plans for a
    march that could have brought in thousands of pro-settler
    protesters, government sources said.

    The army declined immediate comment.

    Israeli officials declared the area a closed military
    zone to prevent the settlers' supporters from swarming in
    and hunkering down to reinforce Gaza settlers vowing to
    resist eviction in mid-August.

    Settlers argued with soldiers at the entrance to the
    settlement bloc after soldiers were ordered to allow entry only for
    residents of the settlements.

    One settler woman, a resident of the settlement bloc,
    argued with a soldier at the Kissufim crossing. She called
    on the soldier to disobey orders and let residents travel
    freely.

    "I think it is absurd that a Jew in the state of Israel
    has to show identification to enter his home. I think it is
    absurd that our police, our soldiers need to protect us
    like that, God knows, carrying out orders, the Nazis were
    also soldiers and the law was to outlaw Jews so here they
    are outlawing settlers," she said.

    Minor scuffles erupted between police forces and Jewish
    settlers who were stopped at the Kissufim crossing, the
    main entrance into the 21 settlements in the Gaza Strip.

    Sharon has billed the settlement evacuation as
    "disengagement" from conflict with the Palestinians after
    nearly five years of bloodshed.

    His plan calls for removing all of Gaza's settlements
    and four of 120 enclaves in the West Bank, territories the
    Palestinians want for a future state. Some 8,500 settlers
    live in Gaza cloistered from more than 1.3 million
    Palestinians.


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