Gush Katif

Israel grants legal status to 19 West Bank settlements, including two vacated in 2005 disengagement

The move follows government approval on Wednesday for the construction of 764 housing units across three settlements in the West Bank.

An Israeli flag flutters, with Ma'aleh Adumim is visible in the background, in the West Bank, August 14, 2025.
 OPPONENTS OF Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s disengagement plan face IDF troops as they secure the fence of Kfar Maimon in July 2005 after police blocked them from marching to the Gush Katif communities to protest against their demolition.

This week in Jewish history: The 2005 Gaza Disengagement

The Jerusalem Dispatch

The Jerusalem Dispatch: 20 years since disengagement

THEN-PRIME MINISTER Ariel Sharon addresses the cabinet at a meeting in 2004, ahead of a vote on approving a Gaza pullout. Let’s not forget a key cause of our ongoing disaster – Sharon’s 2005 ‘disengagement’ from Gaza, the writer charges.

The Gaza Disengagement: Sharon's strategic mistake and its cost – opinion


Yearning for home in Gush Katif: ‘It’s the most human feeling; it’s not political’ - comment

At this point, the government has no plans to return to Gush Katif.

 The Neveh Dekalim community in Gush Katif burns on the day of the disengagement.

Rise, fall, rumored return: Gaza's Gush Katif remembered in Jerusalem

A ‘rediscovered’ museum provides insight into the thriving Gaza community before the disengagement – and its status post-Oct. 7 today.

 THE STORY of Gush Katif lives on through the museum, founded in 2008.

'The Dove That Didn’t Return': A soldier’s experiences - review

Written from the gut, Hacohen's poetry can resonate with anyone, regardless of political viewpoints.

 STREET ART.

'Shifa should become October 7 museum': Gaza resettlement caucus convenes

Knesset members attended a meeting regarding the resettlement of the Gaza Strip as outlined by Zionist goals of Jewish settlement in all of Israel.

 Right-wing Israelis march in support of settlements in the Gaza Strip, February 29, 2024

A street in Kharkiv to be named after a fallen IDF soldier

A street in Kharkiv honors Corporal Alexei-Asher Nikov, killed saving schoolchildren from a terrorist attack in Gush Katif.

Image of Corporal Alexei-Asher Nikov made of smaller images of the children he saved. Uploaded on 7/5/2024

Returning to Gaza is a big mistake, calls are disturbing - editorial

Calls to return to Gaza settlements are divisive amid current warfare in Gaza and the costs of October 7.

 OPPONENTS OF Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s disengagement plan face IDF troops as they secure the fence of Kfar Maimon in July 2005 after police blocked them from marching to the Gush Katif communities to protest against their demolition.

'Oslo is dead': Right-wing ministers, MKs call for return to Gaza settlements

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir called Sunday for an immediate return to Gaza settlements and "correction" of the Oslo Accords.

 Samaria Regional Council Head Yossi Dagan pictured at Jerusalem International Convention Center, January 28.

'Heroes of Gaza': Mini Israel Park to unveil its Gush Katif model over Hanukkah

The event aims to expose visitors to the lives that existed in Gush Katif up until nearly 20 years ago when the settlements were evacuated.

 The model of Gush Katif.

When Israelis formed a human chain to stop the Gaza Disengagement - opinion

Eighteen years ago, 150,000 people formed a human chain, 90 km. long, that stretched from Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip to the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

 HUMAN CHAIN in protest of the Disengagement, July 25, 2004.

Coalition of 11 right-wing organizations unveils Gaza strip resettlement initiative

The overarching objective is to fortify the security belt and reestablish a Jewish presence in these regions.

 Signs are displayed outside a visitor's center in Nitzan near Ashod, Israel, that commemorates the former Gush Katif Jewish settlements in Gaza , August 9, 2015