“Disengagement” Authority Still Covering Up Abuse of Evicted Former Gush Katif Residents

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The State Commission of Inquiry formed to probe the treatment of “evacuees” has begun hearing testimony. This blog has referred and will continue to refer to the former Gush Katif residents by the more accurate terms, the expelled, the evicted, the former Gush Katif residents, rather than the regime politically correct term of “evacuees from the disengagement” because what happened in Gush Katif in August, 2005 was NOT a disengagement and the former residents were NOT “evacuated”, i.e. “evacuated from danger.” The people of Gush Katif had made homes, communities, had built businesses, society, communal and religious life there and had made a disaster area BLOOM. read more

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Wednesday War News Wrap-Up: Over 60 Rockets Hit Israel While Cast Lead Continues, Barak Extends ‘Special Situation’ Range Now at 40 KM, Regime Sends Former Gush Katif Residents in Nitzan Sewer Pipe “Shelters”

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Another regime slap-down of former Gush Katif residents: Concrete Sewer Pipe Shelters??

Commentary;

There are those on the Right who hold that this Gaza ‘Cast Lead’ operation may just be all about politics and political edge merely 41 days before national elections.

And there are others on the Right who correctly assert that “those who forced Israel out of Gaza do not have the moral right to send our soldiers back there” and that “Israeli society must free itself of their despotic grip.” read more

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Former Gush Katif Residents Threatened Yet Again

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The Olmert regime-sponsored abuse, discrimination and persecution of former Gush Katif residents continues over 2 1/2 years after the expulsion. This time, it’s the Ashkelon Coast Regional Council attempting to seize the bank accounts of 500 families living in Nitzan for non-payment of property taxes regarding “temporary residential structures… exempt from property taxes all over the country.”

Click here, here and here for some of the history of Sharon, Olmert regime indifference, insensitivity, downright abuse, discrimination and persecution of former Gush Katif residents. MB read more

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Persecution of Former Gush Katif Residents Non-Ending; Expelled Soldier Ordered to Expell Hevron Jews

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Katif Expellee Ordered to Expel Hevron Jews

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According to Rabbi Elyakim Levanon, the head of the hesder yeshiva in Elon Moreh, one of the soldiers sent to expel Jews from their homes in Hevron on Tuesday was expelled from his home in Gush Katif in 2005. “Is it logical,” Rabbi Levanon asked, “to ask a young man who lives in [caravan city] Nitzan and whose family was expelled to expel people from their homes?”

The general public would agree that the young man should not have been required to participate in the expulsion, Rabbi Levanon said. He called on IDF officials to investigate the incident. If a soldier tells his commander that he is unable to fulfill an order because it goes against his ideals, Rabbi Levanon added, “that is not refusing orders.” read more

Haaretz’s Apparent Pre-Meditated Inaccuracies, Misrepresentations Regarding Compensation to Former Gush Katif Residents

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For previous posts to this blog regarding the mistreeatment and persecution of the former Gush Katif residents by the Sharon/Olmert regimes and by the Disengagement Authority, click here.

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Haaretz published a scathing editorial attacking the already repeatedly put-upon former Gush Katif residents. The editorial was, in the opinion of this author, chock full of deliberate, pre-meditated lies, misrepresentations and inaccuracies.

As a former resident of Gush Katif who is active within the community of Katif expellees and in a position to know the true facts, Dror Vanunu explains that the “claim in left-wing paper Haaretz that each former Katif residents had received $500,000 was completely inaccurate.” read more

Former Gush Katif Residents Victimized: Vindictive Regime and Typical Ethic — Gouge Thy Brother


Expellees Receive Power-Struggle Eviction Notices, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)

Commentary;

It seems like some of the former Gush Katif families have had to endure the ongoing long-term abuse of being caught between a disdainful regime and Israelis whose only ethic is to gouge, shake down and victimize their fellows.

It would not be surprising if we were to find out that both the regime and Kibbutz Carmiya were in cahoots persecuting these families and making their lives intolerable. read more

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Former Gush Katif Residents to Regime: Keep Your Compensation Promises!

Ex-Gaza [Former Gush Katif] Farmers Want Compensation, by Yaffi Spodek
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“‘The government is acting inhumanely toward the residents of Gush Katif,’ said MK Zevulun Orlev…”

For previous related posts on this blog, click here.

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Former Gaza farmers rallied on Sunday to demand that the government fully reimburse them for the land and money that they lost when they were evacuated from their homes two years ago.

Saying the government has failed to keep promises to fully compensating them for the loss of their farms, hundreds of protesters gathered outside Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s office in Jerusalem. read more

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Unrelenting Eviction Threats, Harrassment for Ousted Former Gush Katif Residents

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It seems very little has changed since the weekly hotel eviction notices and daily Kassam attacks. To view previous posts regarding the plight of former Gush Katif Residents and the callous indifference of the Government of Israel, click here and here. MB

Katif Jews Receive Eviction Letters

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Hundreds of Jews who were expelled from their homes in Gaza in 2005 have received eviction letters from their current landlords. The former Gaza residents had been renting apartments with government assistance. However, the government aid is due to end in August, leaving the renters without a home. read more

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Another Report on State of Former Gush Katif Residents

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Do we really need more reports to tell us what has been clearly evident for two years? That is, the consequences of the regime’s legalized theft at gun-point of nearly 10,000 people, the wrapping of them in an endless maze of bureaucracy and utter failure to return to them what is theirs; their lives, their homes, their property and denying them just and proper restitution. It seems that the main reason for these reports is to reinforce what has been laid out by the previous reports and that eventually, through the immense body of evidence, the facts and the TRUTH filters down to Israelis. MB read more

2 Years After Expulsion: Regime to Former Gush Katif Residents = 0

Related report:

Two Years Later, Gush Katif Evacuees Still Need Housing, by Nadav Shragai (Haaretz)

This blogger received the email below from Dror Vanunu of Katifund regarding the current status of the expelled former Gush Katif residents;

Gush Katif Special Report: 22 Months Without a Home.

For the past weeks we are witnessing the emergence of the Hamas in the Gaza Strip and their sowing of violence, despair and hatred among their own people.

From the ruins of our destroyed homes and synagogues they spit out their anger and cruelty to annihilate the State of Israel. read more