Disengagement

The Jerusalem Dispatch: 20 years since disengagement

Calev Ben David and Elliot Jager break down crucial news stories.

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

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

A GIRL is evacuated from Neveh Dekalim, Aug. 2005.

It began in Neveh Dekalim: How the Gaza Disengagement led to judicial reform

SECURITY FORCES are on the scene as residents of Kfar Darom in Gush Katif resist eviction in August 2005. The writer asks: Knowing what we know now, shouldn’t we, at the very least, acknowledge the possibility that some of those protesters were right?

20 years later: Israel's lessons learned from Gush Katif and Tisha B’Av - opinion


Israel moves to reverse 2005 Disengagement, starting in West Bank

Yossi Dagan: "It is impossible to describe the excitement that comes as an injustice that has gone on for years is corrected.”

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

Israeli ministers to vote on reversing disengagement in northern Samaria

Once approved by the Knesset, the legislation would pave the way for the reconstruction of the four communities razed there that year.

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

Court backs settler evacuation on Homesh, upholds Palestinian rights

The court didn’t directly order the evacuation, but it accepted the state’s declaration of intent to evacuate the small illegallybuilt modular seminary.

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

Knesset to vote on repealing Disengagement Law that makes Homesh illegal

The Disengagement Law passed in 2005, leading to the evacuation of Gush Katif and four Jewish settlements in northern Samaria.

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

Israeli-Palestinian confederation plan to be presented to UN, US by Beilin

Former justice minister Yossi Beilin's plan for an Israeli-Palestinian confederation, allowing for settlements, is headed to the UN and US.

 Yossi Beilin attends a memorial ceremony of the Meretz political party for late Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin, in Rabin's Monument site at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv on November 4, 2021.

Terror victim’s widow calls for rally to save Homesh

The date of the Jerusalem protest marks the 30th day since Palestinian gunmen killed Yehuda, 25, as he left the Homesh hilltop.

  Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan and Ethia Dimentman with her son David at the Jerusalem protest tent outside Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's Office.

Palestinians injured in violent clashes near Homesh

Settlers protest demolition of homes on Homesh hilltop

 Palestinians protest against Jewish settlements, in Burqa village, December 24, 2021

On this day in 2005: Israel completes disengagement from the Gaza Strip

The disengagement plan evicted over 9,000 Israeli citizens from their homes in Gaza and northern Samaria.

 Tree is decorated with orange ribbons in front of destroyed Jewish settler houses in former Jewish settlement of Gadid in Gaza Strip, August, 2005.

Knesset to mark date of disengagement from Gaza, northern Samaria

The Land of Israel Caucus requested that the date of the Gaza disengagement be marked, in a letter to the Knesset Speaker signed by 58 MKs from parties in the coalition and opposition.

A letter sent to the Knesset Speaker by the Land of Israel Caucus asking that the Knesset mark the date of the disengagement from Gaza and northern Samaria.

Activists end one-day Sa-Nur standoff, call for settlement to be rebuilt

"It is clear that there is no person left in the State of Israel who believes that this displacement was correct."

Settlers resettle Sa-Nur overnight, Nov. 17, 2020