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.

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

The Jerusalem Dispatch

The Jerusalem Dispatch: 20 years since disengagement

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


Gaza Disengagement: Reporting from the trenches

‘The Jerusalem Post’s then-defense correspondent opens up his reporter’s notebook on the disengagement, 15 years on.

OPPONENTS OF the disengagement plan from Gaza confront Border Police at the synagogue in the settlement of Kfar Darom in August 2005.

Gaza Disengagement: Memories and lessons 15 years on

‘The Jerusalem Post’s editor-in-chief remembers his experiences as a reporter for the paper during this tumultuous time.

AN IDF soldier evicts residents from their Neveh Dekalim home on August 18, 2005

Grapvine August 2, 2020: A painful anniversary

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

TAMAR BAKSHI

Gush Katif - Lessons of the Gaza withdrawal 15 years on

We owe it to ourselves and to the thousands of Jews who were banished to distill the lessons of that disaster and ensure that it never again recurs.

DEMOLISHING THE Ganey Tal settlement in Gush Katif, Gaza, during the disengagement, on August 22, 2005

The pioneers of Halutza

When terrorists throw rockets, we build communities. We plant a tree and build a park and bring new families to the area. This is our answer to terror’ – Yedidya Harush, Jewish National Fund-USA

The pioneers Halutza

Tali Hatuel, 4 daughters remembered 15 years after deadly terror attack

On May 2, 2004 - Iyar 11, 5764 - two terrorists ambushed Hatuel's car near the Kissufim crossing. The terrorists killed them all at point-blank range, shooting them repeatedly.

A general view shows the five bodies of the Hatuel family, the pregnant mother Tali and her four daughters.

Otzma candidate Ben-Gvir calls for return to Gush Katif

Itamar Ben-Gvir called for Israel to return to Gush Katif, the bloc of Gaza Jewish communities evicted in 2005, as a response to the continued rocket fire on Israel's South.

Itamar Ben-Gvir from the Otzma Yehudit party, attends a hearing at Israel's Supreme Court in Jerusalem March 13, 2019

Former IDF chief rabbi Rafi Peretz elected to lead Bayit Yehudi

Peretz is married and the father of 12 children. He lived in Gush Katif in Gaza before the disengagement, and currently lives in Neveh, in the Negev, with other Gaza evacuees.

Rafi Peretz

Report: Shin Bet eavesdropped on minor and mother in Jewish terror case

A report claims Israel's secret service has an underage student under surveillance.

Police raid the Pri Haaretz Yeshiva in Rechalim

PM says Gush Katif evacuees akin to Palestinian refugees

“This is a very welcome and important change, and we support it,” Netanyahu said of the American decision regarding UNRWA.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a school in Yad Binyamin