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.

DECEMBER 16, 2025|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM, REUTERS

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

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.

AUGUST 16, 2025|BySTEVEN DRUCKER

The Jerusalem Dispatch: 20 years since disengagement

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

AUGUST 11, 2025|ByJERUSALEM POST PODCASTS

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

Ariel Sharon’s 2005 withdrawal from Gaza created an opportunity for Hamas to rise, leading to devastating consequences for both Israelis and Palestinians.

AUGUST 9, 2025|ByDAVID M. WEINBERG

Smotrich: Gush Katif is 'too small,' good things are about to happen in the Gaza Strip

The finance minister said he was still in the government since he had "reason to believe that good things are about to happen" in the Gaza Strip.

JULY 29, 2025ByELIAV BREUER

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a meeting of the Knesset Lobby for the Renewal of Jewish Settlement in the Gaza Strip, held at the Knesset in Jerusalem, July 22, 2025

Smotrich: IDF chief told me Israel must annex northern Gaza for 'security purposes'

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich made the claim to a conference in the Knesset on Tuesday, which discussed right-wing plans to rebuild settlement blocs across the Gaza Strip.

JULY 22, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, WALLA!

(From R-L) Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, MK Zvi Sukkot, MK Limor Son Har-Melech, Settler activist Daniella Weiss, attend a Gaza settlement conference at the Knesset, July 22, 2025.

Seven Israelis including one minor charged for breaching military zone, crossing into Gaza

The defendants were among protesters who resisted arrest, which required police and military action to remove them.

MARCH 10, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Great heaviness melding with tremendous light - opinion

There is a great sense of heaviness here, as I witnessed most directly in Be’eri this week, but there is also tremendous light and hope for the future, as experienced with our brave soldiers on base.

JANUARY 15, 2025ByHOLLY CIN

Photos of the destruction in Kibbutz Be'eri taken in the beginning of November 2023.

Likud to hold event in support of resettling Gaza

Some 21 towns and approximately 8,000 Israeli settlers were removed from the Gaza Strip during the 2005 disengagement.

OCTOBER 16, 2024ByELIAV BREUER

'If we stayed in Gaza, Oct. 7 wouldn't have happened,' says general who led evacuation - interview

"After the disengagement, Hamas rose to power. Before they forcibly took control of Gaza, Hamas won the elections, partly due to the disengagement," Hacohen said.

AUGUST 24, 2024BySHERRY MAKOVER-BALIKOV