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


An open letter to Isi Leibler

The Jerusalem Post

Peace Now director calls on education minister to abolish Gush Katif education day

Director says day planned by Gush Katif evacuees is "a day for right wing propaganda that attempts to provide a one-sided and biased narrative."

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Fundamentally Freund: Gush Katif, Past and future

In longing to return to Gaza, Jews are driven by the natural and healthy ambition that any nation has to put down roots in the same ground where its ancestors lived for millennia.

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Gaza evacuee places Israeli flag on Sharon’s grave

Avi Farhan was removed from the Yamit settlement in Sinai and later Gush Katif, both on the orders of the former PM.

Avi Farhan, a Gaza evacuee whose life was turned upside down by prime minister Ariel Sharon, spreads an Israeli flag over his grave.

Settler leader recalls Sharon as Sabastia ally, Gaza foe

Benny Katzover who heads the Samaria Citizen’s Committee, has no plans to participate in the public ceremony in Jerusalem.

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Bayit Yehudi MK: 'My remark thanking God for taking Sharon away was made too soon'

Livni calls MK Struck's comments evil and unintelligent; Marzel: "I'm glad Sharon, a threat to Israel, was removed."

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The impurity of Kerry

The Jerusalem Post

Supreme Court endorses paying millions more in compensation to former Gush Katif settlers

Millions of shekels to be paid out in settlement after families claim committee undervalued their homes.

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MEDIA COMMENT: Yes, there is left-wing media bias

The extreme Left is often described as “peace activists,” but it is invariably “Jewish extremists” when considering the Right.

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Gulf States worried about US-Iran rapprochement

Fears arise that the recent overtures may allow Iran to attain nuclear weapons and consolidate its regional position.

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