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Israel completes Gaza Strip withdrawal
(AP)
Updated: 2005-08-24 08:31

Israeli forces armed with riot gear, saws and wire cutters evicted militant holdouts from two Jewish settlements Tuesday, completing Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's historic withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and a corner of the West Bank, reported AP.

The relative ease and lack of violence with which Israel pulled out of the 25 settlements in just a week was a stinging setback to Israel's ultra-nationalist movement, which for months had mounted vocal and dramatic resistance.

Palestinian and Israeli leaders as well as US President Bush said the pullout 錕斤拷 the first time Israel has abandoned territory Palestinians claim for their future state 錕斤拷 opened new opportunities for peace negotiations.

Israeli security forces scuffle with a resisting Jewish settler during the evacuation of the northern West Bank Jewish settlement of Homesh, Tuesday Aug. 23, 2005.
Israeli security forces scuffle with a resisting Jewish settler during the evacuation of the northern West Bank Jewish settlement of Homesh, Tuesday Aug. 23, 2005. [AP]
Mobilized for the final push, about 10,000 soldiers and police overwhelmed extremists protesting the pullout in the West Bank settlements of Sanur and Homesh. SWAT teams sprayed a fire hose on dozens of extremists, sliced through steel bars of a shuttered seminary and bulldozed a barbed-wire barricade to storm rioters pelting troops with eggs and tin cans.

The settler evacuations concluded the major piece of the unilateral pullout Sharon envisioned 18 months ago, aimed at reducing friction with the Palestinians, easing Israel's military burden, and tightening its hold on the West Bank heartland where most of the 240,000 Jewish settlers live.

Israel said homes in the abandoned settlements will be destroyed in 10 days, part of an agreement with the Palestinians.

In Gaza, the Israeli government 錕斤拷 after quiet consultations with the United States and the Palestinians 錕斤拷 decided to demolish the private homes used by Jewish settlers, many of them single-family villas, and to leave most public buildings intact.

The Palestinians felt the homes were inappropriate for their housing needs in overcrowded Gaza, and plan to build high-rise apartment buildings in their place. In addition, many ordinary Gazans feared that corrupt Palestinian politicians and their cronies would appropriate settler villas.

Jewish settlers and protesters are lowered to the ground inside a metal container from a rooftop where they were barricaded to resist evacuation of the Jewish settlement of Sanur, West Bank August 23, 2005.
Jewish settlers and protesters are lowered to the ground inside a metal container from a rooftop where they were barricaded to resist evacuation of the Jewish settlement of Sanur, West Bank August 23, 2005. [Reuters]
Bulldozers leveled villas and cottages in Ganim and Kadim 錕斤拷 the first demolitions in the West Bank 錕斤拷 after settlers there left Tuesday of their own accord. Destruction of houses in the 21 Gaza settlements were already under way.

In Gaza, explosions were heard late Tuesday in the abandoned settlement of Dugit, were Palestinian officials said Israelis had advised them they would be blowing up buildings and installations. With the civilians gone, Israel must destroy its military bases before staging its own withdrawal 錕斤拷 within a few weeks 錕斤拷 and end the 38-year occupation of the coastal strip.

Israeli doves, who said little while Sharon battled his own hawkish party to push through the withdrawal plan, were jubilant. "This is the beginning of a process we always regarded as necessary. The hope is the state of Israel is coming back to sanity," said Tsali Reshef, a leader of the Peace Now movement.

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas telephoned Israeli President Moshe Katzav to congratulate Israel on its "courageous step" of leaving Gaza. A day earlier, Abbas telephoned Sharon and the two leaders agreed to meet soon.

Bush said Monday the pullout has cleared the way for the resumption of peacemaking. "In the heart of the Middle East a hopeful story is unfolding," he said.

The West Bank evacuations began shortly after dawn when columns of troops entered Sanur and Homesh. Resistance there was staged largely by 1,500 Israelis from outside the West Bank 錕斤拷 some of them youths known for their extremism and rejection of the Israeli government's authority.

"Everyone knew we wouldn't win, that the army brought big forces here. But we came to demonstrate determination," said Ido, a 17-year-old from the southern Israeli town of Sderot.

For many Israelis, the evacuation of the West Bank settlements 錕斤拷 in the heart of the biblical Land of Israel 錕斤拷 was particularly painful, and authorities feared extremists would turn violent. They did not, and troops persuaded most protesters to leave without a struggle.

"Rabbis were present at all the flashpoints and they lowered the flames," said northern commander Maj. Gen. Yair Naveh.

In Sanur, resisters occupied the roof of a British-built citadel surrounded by coils of razor-wire. In a scene reminiscent of troops breaking a hard-line standoff in Gaza days ago, cranes lifted a shipping container loaded with troops onto the roof, while other forces cut ground-floor iron doors and carried out resisters kicking and squirming.

Sanur's main synagogue was evacuated after forces sawed through iron bars in the doorway. Troops who broke into a religious seminary housed in an abandoned mosque carried out 30 black-garbed ultra-Orthodox men holed up inside.

The toughest resistance came at a Homesh seminary, where protesters barricaded themselves on the roof. Resisters locked arms but did not struggle when troops placed them into the shovel of a bulldozer and lowered them to the ground.

Below, troops sawed through the window bars and main gate of the building to carry out protesters who lay on the floor, arms locked, offering prayers and songs of praise to God.

Naveh, the northern commander, said 19 policemen and soldiers were lightly injured in Tuesday's operation. Five protesters were injured and 40 were arrested, he said.

Sharon decided to add the isolated northern West Bank settlements to the Gaza pullout plan "to show our seriousness and willingness to reach a comprehensive agreement" with the Palestinians, said senior Sharon adviser Raanan Gissin.

Since the evacuation operation began eight days ago, the army said 15,000 people were removed from Gaza and the West Bank settlements 錕斤拷 far more than the 9,000 who actually lived there, an indication of the fierce resistance mounted by hard-liners backing the settlers.

"We thought that the Jewish nation would wake up," said Rabbi Dov Lior, a spokesman for the settler movement. "But I don't think our force is weakening," he said, predicting a comeback for the settlers.

The four emptied West Bank settlements are near the Palestinian towns of Jenin and Tulkarem, both militant strongholds.

Subhi Alawneh, a 58-year-old farmer from the nearby Palestinian village of Jaba, called Tuesday "a day of celebration" for the more than 40,000 Palestinians who live near Sanur.

"We were afraid of them all the time," Alawneh said, referring to the settlers. "After they are removed, we will distribute sweets and show happiness, we will go out into the streets to celebrate."



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