GAZA STRIP: ISRAEL BULLDOZERS MOVE IN TO PE'AT SADEH SETTLEMENT IN GAZA

Record ID: 400652

  • Title: GAZA STRIP: ISRAEL BULLDOZERS MOVE IN TO PE'AT SADEH SETTLEMENT IN GAZA
  • Date: 21st August 2005
  • Summary: (W3) PE'AT SADEH SETTLEMENT, GAZA STRIP (AUGUST 21, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS ISRAELI ARMY BULLDOZERS DEMOLISHING SETTLER BUILDINGS; RUBBLE (5 SHOTS) 1.34 2. VARIOUS BULLDOZER NEAR BUILDING; DEMOLITION IN PROGRESS (5 SHOTS) 2.41 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 5th September 2005 13:00
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  • Location: PE'AT SADEH SETTLEMENT, GAZA STRIP
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  • Country: Palestinian Territories
  • Reuters ID: LVATG7DL6I7VKPHW2CVIW8AZ590
  • Story Text: Israel bulldozers move in to Pe'at Sadeh settlement in Gaza.




    Israeli bulldozers demolished buildings in the Pe'at Sadeh
    settlement in the Gaza Strip on Sunday (August 21, 2005), whose 110 people was the
    first settlement in the Gush Katif bloc to opt to leave as a group.

    Bastions of resistance in settlements emptied last week, synagogues
    became final assembly points for the peaceful departure of dozens of families
    bidding farewell to homes on land Palestinians want for a state.

    More than 85 percent of Gaza's settlers have gone since forced
    evacuations began on Wednesday, but resistance has been reinforced by radicals
    like those who made stands last week at Neve Dekalim, the biggest settlement,
    and Kfar Darom.

    Palestinians welcome the removal of the 8,500 Gaza settlers and another
    500 from the West Bank, but fear Israel aims to keep most of the other
    settlements housing 230,000 settlers forever. Some 2.4 million Palestinians
    live in the West Bank.

    The World Court says Jewish settlements are illegal. Israel disputes
    this.

    Israeli rightists say the pullout is a victory for Palestinian
    militants, a view echoed by the gunmen, and fear that uprooting Gaza's
    settlements sets a precedent for further moves out of much bigger Israeli
    enclaves in the West Bank.

    Opinion polls show most Israelis favour leaving Gaza and saw it as too
    costly to keep defending the settlers who lived there alongside 1.4 million
    Palestinians.


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