Disengagement

MKs attend reestablishment of West Bank settlement of Ganim, 21 years after disengagement

Katz and MK Yuli Edelstein attended the inauguration ceremony, breaking ground alongside Samaria Regional Council Yossi Dagan and several other members of Knesset.

Jews return to the former settlement of Ganim in the northern West Bank, which was evacuated in 2005 as part of Israel’s Disengagement Plan, August 13, 2026.
GUSH KATIF’S pioneers made the desert bloom: Entrance to Neveh Dekalim, seen July 2005.

Why Israel must reverse the 2005 Gaza withdrawal, resettle Gush Katif - opinion

The Jerusalem Dispatch

The Jerusalem Dispatch: 20 years since disengagement

Former prime minister Ariel Sharon is seen in an archive image taken during the 1980s

Gaza Disengagement, revisited: Sharon’s gamble, Israel’s price


Israel didn't violate US agreement, official says, downplays crisis

After the disengagement repeal, the US accused Israel of violating a 2004 agreement, which the official said the US also did not hold to.

 US PRESIDENT Joe Biden, at the time serving as vice president, has dinner with then-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, during his visit to Israel in 2010.

Amid judicial overhaul, Israelis don't notice American anger

National Affairs: The Disengagement repeal law was largely overlooked by the public this week, until the Americans took angry notice.

 ISRAELI ACTIVISTS carry a tent in the abandoned settlement of Homesh, in 2007.

Netanyahu causing cumulative damage to US-Israel ties - editorial

While Israel can withstand US disapproval of one policy or another, when the disagreements come in quick succession there is a concern about accumulative impact.

 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen in Jerusalem, on March 13, 2023.

Israel trashed US two-state hopes but did it violate the Bush agreement? - analysis

Bush’s Road Map, which Israel signed onto in 2002 with reservations, called on the Jewish state to freeze all settlement activity including what was needed for natural growth.

FORMER PRIME minister Ariel Sharon (left) meets with then-US president George W. Bush during the 2005 World Summit and 60th General Assembly of the United Nations

Israel repealed the Disengagement law: What comes next? - explainer

Peace Now warned that the repeal of the Disengagement Law sends the message that "settler violence and Palestinian land theft is effective and appropriate."

 Visitors walk by the water tower on the ruins of the evacuated settlement of Homesh on August 27, 2019.

Hundreds of Israeli settlers break through checkpoint into Homesh - report

Israeli security forces are reportedly preparing to evacuate the crowds of people. 

Israeli soldiers block the entrance to Homesh in the West Bank on May 28, 2022.

Knesset repeals Disengagement as MK calls to return to Gaza Strip

Right-wing MKs praised the repeal of the Disengagement Law, while some are marking the return to Gush Katif as the next goal.

 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

US opposes Israeli bill to repeal Disengagement in northern Samaria

The Knesset approved the repeal of the 2005 Disengagement Law in its second and third readings.

 Visitors walk by the water tower on the ruins of the evacuated settlement of Homesh on August 27, 2019.

Israeli judicial reform is tit-for-tat over Gaza Disengagement

POLITICAL AFFAIRS: The Israeli judicial reform’s emotional roots were planted in the summer of 2005 and a feeling of betrayal.

 A 2004 PROTEST in downtown Jerusalem against the government’s plan to disengage from Gaza.

Bill to cancel north Samaria disengagement heads to first Knesset reading

The original Disengagement Bill from 2005 included a clause that bars Israeli citizens from reentering any of the evacuated areas.

 Construction is underway on Israel's new security barrier in northern Samaria