WEST BANK: ISRAEL FORCES STORM SYNAGOGUE IN HOMESH TO EVACUATE SETTLERS

Record ID: 400490

  • Title: WEST BANK: ISRAEL FORCES STORM SYNAGOGUE IN HOMESH TO EVACUATE SETTLERS
  • Date: 23rd August 2005
  • Summary: (BN06) HOMESH, WEST BANK (AUGUST 23, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS OF SOLDIERS MARCHING INTO HOMESH 0.03 2. SLV SOLDIERS ARRIVING 0.15 3. TOPSHOT OF SOLDIERS ARRIVING AT GATE WHERE FIRE IS SMOULDERING 0.25 4. VARIOUS OF SOLDIERS IN LINE/ BULLDOZER DRIVING TO GATE TO PUT OUT FIRE 0.44 5. SLV BULLDOZER WITH CONTAINER OF SAND 0
  • Embargoed: 7th September 2005 13:00
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  • Location: HOMESH SETTLEMENT, WEST BANK
  • City:
  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVAEIASPGFOILLXAGCYS4W55DSEY
  • Story Text: Israeli forces storm a synagogue in the hardline settlement of Homesh.



    Israel on Tuesday (August 23, 2005) evacuated the West Bank settlements
    of Sanur and Homesh, police said, completing the removal of settlers under
    Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan for withdrawing from some occupied land.


    As police declared the operation complete, they used a modified
    shipping container to lower last holdouts to the ground from the roof of an
    old British police station in Sanur.

    Earlier Israeli forces smashed their way into the settlements and
    dragged away ultrarightist Jews dug in for a last stand against evacuation.


    Police stormed a synagogue in the Homesh enclave that had been
    fortified by radicals, drawing a hail of bottles, light bulbs, paint, ketchup,
    eggs and cooking oil as they began extracting diehard settlers.

    Some, including children and youths, were removed from a synagogue roof
    in the scoop of one of the bulldozers that had earlier rammed through
    makeshift barriers of burning tyres and rubbish at the entry gates to Sanur
    and neighbouring Homesh.

    Palestinians want Israel to leave all of the West Bank and Gaza but
    Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has sworn to keep the biggest Jewish settlements
    in the West Bank, where some 230,000 settlers live among 2.4 million
    Palestinians.

    Ultranationalists want to make the withdrawal from a pocket of the
    northern West Bank more painful than the generally smooth evacuation from
    Gaza, completed on Monday, to deter Israel from ever again ceding Jewish
    enclaves in occupied territory.



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