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Commentary;
Having read the news report below, this author placed a call to friends, formerly of Shirat Hayam, who are among the 7 families now living in the community of Maskiot. They and the other families have been there for a month, are happy and hope that the government will not move against them. MB
Gush Katif Expulsion Victims Move to Jordan Valley
Full Text;
Ten families from the destroyed Gush Katif community of Shirat HaYam have moved to the community of Maskiot in the Jordan Valley, where there is a pre-army military academy. Last year, then-Defense Minister Amir Peretz announced the same day the American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was visiting Israel that the government would build several new houses in Maskiot.
