- Title: GAZA: ISRAELI ARMY REMOVE PROTECTIVE CEMENT WALLS AHEAD OF GAZA PULLOUT.
- Date: 28th April 2005
- Summary: (BN10) ISRAELI ARMY BASE NEAR NEVE DEKALIM SETTLEMENT, GAZA STRIP (APRIL 28, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. GV/MV: FORKLIFT REMOVING CEMENT BLOCKS AT A MILITARY POST NEAR GUSH KATIF; BLOCK BEING REMOVED; PLACED ON THE BACK OF A TRUCK (3 SHOTS) 0.18 2. CU/PAN: OLD METAL HOLDING CELL, PAN TO TRUCK AND SOLDIERS 0.24 3. CU/MV/GV: CHAINS FROM FORKLIFT BEIN
- Embargoed: 13th May 2005 13:00
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- Location: ISRAELI ARMY BASE NEAR NEVE DEKALIM SETTLEMENT, GAZA STRIP
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- Country: Palestinian Territories
- Reuters ID: LVA3KG7G4OL4P8QA40GNQ6XUWWIF
- Story Text: Israeli Army removes protective cement walls ahead
of PM Sharon's Gaza withdrawal.
The Israeli army started removing some cement blocks
on Thursday (April 28) at an Israeli army base near the
Neve Dekalim settlement, which is due to be evacuated later
this year.
The move comes as part of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon's plan to evacuate all Israeli settlers and forces
from the Gaza Strip by mid-2005
The moving of the cement blocks and slabs was being
carried out by two Israeli soldiers who said they were
implementing the new changes.
Most Israelis favour giving up the costly-to-defend
enclaves where 8,500 settlers live among 1.3 million
Palestinians on land captured in the 1967 Middle East war.
Washington sees it as a possible step towards reviving
Middle East peace negotiations.
On Wednesday (April 27) tens of thousands of Israelis
poured into Gaza's biggest Jewish settlement in a blaze of
orange on Wednesday to rally against Sharon's plan to
abandon the Strip in less than four months.
Settlers said some 30,000 sympathisers had joined the
show of defiance launched after exhausting political
avenues for stopping Israel's first removal of settlements
from land where Palestinians seek a state.
All 21 settlements in the Gaza Strip are due to be
evacuated along with four of the 120 in the West Bank,
where some 230,000 settlers inhabit land.
Once the godfather of the settler movement,
77-year-old Sharon fought for more than a year to get the
plan past his cabinet and Israel's parliament, splitting
his right-wing Likud party in the process.
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