Settlers resist as Israel completes Gaza pullout

Associated Press

Transcribed from the clipping

“Abbas said Israel’s unilateral withdrawal was only the first step. ‘Tomorrow they will start leaving part of the West Bank,’ Abbas told a group 400 disabled Palestinians wounded in uprisings against Israel. ‘It’s a beginning of the full withdrawal from all the settlements. We will not close our eyes. We will not rest until they leave from all our land.’… At Sanur, the most hardline West Bank settlement earmarked for evacuation, young men were welding bars onto the open windows of an old British police structure known as ‘the fortress’… On the roof, settlers flew a hand-painted Israeli flag that was taken from a refugee boat in 1947 that was trying to break the British blockade of pre-independence Israel. Painted on a sign under the flag: ‘The British didn’t succeed in expelling. And you?’… The 5-year-old daughter of the rabbi put a handful of sand in her purse… Some evacuated settlers set up tent cities on vacant Israeli land near Gaza’s borders, with signs at the perimeters calling them ‘refugee camps.’ Sharon has called the camps a political ploy to create sympathy.”

Photograph caption

Jewish settlers remove a Menorah from the synagogue at the Jewish settlement of Netzarim in the Gaza Strip on Monday.

Context added by this archive

Four hundred Palestinians wounded in the uprisings, assembled as an audience for a speech. They are the population the 1996 lawsuits were filed by, nine years on, and they appear here as a room Abbas is speaking to. On the same page, evacuated settlers pitch tents and call them refugee camps, and the prime minister calls that a ploy.

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"Settlers resist as Israel completes Gaza pullout," Bangor Daily News, 23 August 2005. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2005-006. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2005-006

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