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Six arrested trying to mark 19 years since disengagement in Gaza

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sraeli security forces arrested six youths after dozens tried to breach the border with the Gaza Strip to conduct a Jewish prayer service there on Thursday morning. The six who were detained were part of a...

Thousands march for Gaza resettlement amid Hamas rocket fire

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Israeli Cabinet ministers and lawmakers called for the reestablishment of a civilian Jewish presence in the Gaza Strip, speaking at an Independence Day march attended by tens of thousands in the border town of Sderot on...

Thousands to march for Gaza resettlement on Independence Day

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Thousands of Israelis calling for Jews to once more live in the Gaza Strip are expected to participate in an Independence Day march towards the border with the Strip on Tuesday, according to organizers. The...
Visitors walk by the water tower in the ruins of the former community of Homesh, Aug. 27, 2019. Photo by Hillel Maeir/Flash90.

Gallant opens door to Jewish return to evacuated part of Samaria

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Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has instructed Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fox, head of the IDF Central Command, to sign an order that could allow Jews to once more live in Homesh, one of the four...
IDF tanks stationed near the Israel-Gaza border on March 26, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

The Gaza Strip and learning to live with insoluble problems

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Upon its conclusion, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rightly lauded the Israel Defense Forces for its brilliant work during “Operation Shield and Arrow.” The five-day campaign exacted a heavy toll on the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)...
Demolition of Ganey Tal settlement in Gush Katif, Gaza, during Israel's disengagement, Aug. 22, 2005. Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash90.

Gaza’s ghosts

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In a jaw-dropping display of irony, on Wednesday the Neve Dekalim Girl’s High School was forced to cancel a scheduled celebration to mark its 40th birthday. Since 2005, the school has been located in Nitzan,...
The seal of the U.S. Department of State. Credit: Christopher E. Zimmer/Shutterstock.

US ‘extremely troubled’ that Knesset rescinded parts of disengagement law

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The Knesset voted 31-18 on March 21 to repeal articles of the 2005 Gaza Disengagement Law, which banned Israelis from entering and living in four communities in northern Samaria. Hours later, a spokesman for the U.S....

Why we desperately need Israeli judicial reform

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In June 1992, with the defeat of Israel’s Likud government and the ascension of the Labor Party to power, the Palestine Liberation Organization, an outlawed terrorist organization in a state of total war against...
From left: Brig. Gen. (res.) Amir Avivi, director of Habithonistim; Irit Linur, Israel Hayom columnist; Shabtai Bandat, Peace Now activist; and Jackie Levi, moderator and Israel Hayom columnist. Photo by David Isaac.

Gush Katif conference relives loss of Gaza communities, studies rifts in Israeli society

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It was 16 years ago Monday— the 10th of Av in the Hebrew calendar—that more than 8,000 Jews were evicted from their homes in the Gaza Strip in what was officially known as the...
Demolition of Ganey Tal settlement in Gush Katif, Gaza, during Israel's disengagement, Aug. 22, 2005. Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash90.

15 years after disengagement from Gaza, area still mired by violence

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Israel will mark 15 years since the 2005 Gaza Disengagement—former Prime Minister’s Ariel Sharon’s operation to evict all 8,000 or so Israelis from the Gazan Jewish communities of Gush Katif, along with those in...