- Title: GAZA: ISRAELI ARMY DISMANTLES ARMY POST SECURING THE ISOLATED NETZRIM SETTLEMENT
- Date: 11th August 2005
- Summary: (EU) NETZARIM SETTLEMENT, GUSH KATIF SETTLEMENT BLOC, GAZA STRIP (AUGUST 10, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. SLV PAN ARMY POST SECURING THE ISOLATED NETZARIM SETTLEMENT TO BE DISMANTLED; LAS ARMY WATCH TOWER AT ENTRANCE TO BASE (3 SHOTS) 0.28 2. MV SOLDIERS LOADING EQUIPMENT ON TRUCK; SLV SOLDIERS DISMANTLING BASE; SLV TANKS; LAS SOLDIERS CLIMBING ON WATER TOWE
- Embargoed: 26th August 2005 13:00
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- Location: NETZARIM SETTLEMENT, GAZA STRIP
- City:
- Country: Palestinian Territories
- Reuters ID: LVA2YFQX38990SA6O67A3M1Y21JG
- Story Text: Israel army dimantles army post securing the
isolated Netzarim settlement in Gaza.
The Israeli army dismantled its post securing the
Netzarim settlement in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday (August
10, 2005), ahead of next week's evacuation of all 21 Gaza
settlements.
Netzarim is an isolated enclave in central occupied
Gaza Strip, and has been a target for Palestinian militants
attacks over the past four and a half years of Palestinian
uprising. Access to the settlement is only possible in army
convoys and under heavy security.
Netzarim is expected to be one of the first Gaza
settlements to be evacuated under Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon's 'disengagement plan'.
Under the plan, all 21 settlements in the Gaza Strip
and four out of 120 in the West Bank are slated for
evacuation. The pullout will mark the first dismantling of
Jewish settlements on territory Israel occupied in the 1967
Middle East war and which Palestinians seek for an
independent state.
Although Palestinians welcome the Israeli withdrawal,
they fear Sharon may use it as an excuse to strengthen his
hold in West Bank territories.
Israel intends to serve eviction notices on 8,500 Gaza
settlers on August 15 and will begin removing those who
refuse to leave the area's settlements after a further two
days.
Opinion polls show a majority of Israelis support
Sharon's plan to "disengage" from an area he says Israel
has no chance of keeping in a final peace treaty with the
Palestinians.
But, a deep well of opposition to the move exists among
some Israelis, many of whom stake a biblical claim to Gaza
and the West Bank. Settlers and their supporters who have
waged a protest campaign say the pullout "capitulates" to a
Palestinian revolt and betrays an ancient Jewish claim to
biblical lands.
Israel's Gaza settlers live in heavily fortified
enclaves isolated from 1.4 million Palestinians. The World
Court has called the settlements illegal but Israel
disputes this.
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