Israel Completes Gaza Evacuation

World | August 23, 2005, Tuesday // 00:00
Israel Completes Gaza Evacuation A Jewish settler youth, wearing orange Star of David patch similar to those the Nazis forced Jews to pin to their lapels, waits to be evacuated by Israeli forces in the northern West Bank Jewish settlement of Homesh. Photo by AP/BTA

Israel has fully evacuated the West Bank settlements of Sanur and Homesh - completing the removal of settlers under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's "disengagement plan". Many Jewish settlers had been holding out against their eviction but were removed with little physical resistance. Soldiers and police had earlier removed scores of people from inside a former British military garrison in Sanur. The plan has seen more than 9,000 settlers being removed from land occupied in 1967.

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