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Topic: Gush Katif

	katifund-Friends of Gush Katif
		The Gush Katif Committee and its American branch, Friends of Gush Katif is the official umbrella organization representing all 21 former Gush Katif communities.
		Here you will be able to read updates about the dispersed communities of Gush Katif, testimonies and diaries, from the uprooting through the reconstruction, to know the whereabouts of the families, to learn about new projects aimed at strengthening the dismantled communities and in-depth articles about the current situation.
		Former Gush Katif residents Shai and Iris Hamu and their four children have been living in a two-room rented apartment in Moshav Mavki'im, near Ashkelon, for a year and a half.
	www.katifund.org /English (561 words)

	Against Disengagement of Gush Katif, Israel Petition
		The Palestinians believe that they are gaining Gush Katif in response to their "martyrdom".
		Gush Katif is strategically located and once the PA has control over it, Israel will become many times more vulnerable to terrorist attacks.
		The Against Disengagement of Gush Katif, Israel Petition to George Bush was created by and written by Chaya Morris (Joe_Morris@bellsouth.net).
	www.petitiononline.com /NOTERROR/petition.html (272 words)

	Gush Katif - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gush Katif was located in the south-west edge of the Gaza Strip, situated between the Mediterranean Sea coast to the west and the large Palestinian towns of Rafah and Khan Younis to the east.
		Gush Katif was located in the Gaza Strip, part of the territories captured by Israel in 1967 during the Six Day War.
		On August 15, 2005, the forcible evacuation of the Gush Katif settlements began.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gush_Katif (1218 words)

	Miraklene i Gush Katif
		The majority of former Gush Katif residents living in temporary housing suffer from feelings of abandonment because of the negligence and foot-dragging of the government.
		Unless there is a vast change in the attitude of the government, the Gush Katif residents will be forced to live in their temporary housing for at least 5 and maybe as much as 7 years which would preclude them from becoming active and contributing citizens of Israel for an unnecessarily long time.
		The Gush Katif people in virtually all the different age groups feel devastated; feel a great sense of loss and feel at times abandoned by their government and by their fellow Jews.
	www.sjibbolet.no /gush_katif.htm (0 words)

	Living in Gush Katif
		They spend their time helping the Gush Katif residents, building, planting, baby sitting etc? In addition, hundreds of families, with babies and young children, have also managed to find their way inside and live now in the tent cities built by Minhelet Kela and /or have found lodging with families or in refurbished homes.
		Family members of Gush Katif residents are obligated to go through a long process of getting a certificate allowing them to enter Gush Katif and visit their relatives, but only for 72 hours, otherwise they, and their hosts, will get arrested.
		He played music in the car and was accused of "blocking the road with loud music!" A Holocaust survivor, resident of Gush Katif refused to identify herself on her way out of the Gush (yes, now you also need to identify on the way out).
	nyjtimes.com /cover/08-17-05/LivingInGushKatif.htm (1440 words)

	Live from Gush katif!
		It shows a masked girl saying she is 15 and a expelee from gush katif.
		The fury brought forth by the youth of gush katif at the likes of aviner and the yesha council to quote you eli ben haroush from atzmona who was born in the katif block "how dare these outsiders tell me how to fight"
		Me and the torah i recieved from america for gush katif were expelled from maoz hayam.
	gushkatif.blogspot.com (5478 words)

	Welcome to the Jewish Independent Online
		One of the former residents of the settlement of Ganei Tal in Gush Katif was Ronit Balaban.
		As she grew Mediterranean plants in Gush Katif, she preferred a location south of Ashdod, which had a climate somewhat similar to that of Ganei Tal.
		Each of the 11 farming families have their own stories to tell, but it is clear that they are grateful to JNF for giving them the possibility to start over again after their homes and livelihoods were taken from them so abruptly.
	www.jewishindependent.ca /cover (0 words)

	Think-Israel
		It is run by former Gush Katif residents with the participation of representatives of all the scattered communities.
		There's a learning gap of approximiately one school-year between the Gush Katif pupils and those in the rest of the country due to time lost in the struggle against the disengagement during the last school year and to the 4 months lost at the beginning of this school year.
		Volunteers and staff of the Gush Katif Committee are also currently involved in a project to document the experiences of dozens of families in the course of the disengagement and its aftermath.
	www.think-israel.org /vanunu.gkstatus.html (3057 words)

	TheRaphi.com - Post-Mortem on Gush Katif: Where do we go From Here? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gush Katif, whose 800 cows constituted the second largest dairy farm in Israel.
		Gush Katif, which produced 95% of all Israel’s exports of bug-free lettuce and greens, 70% of all Israel’s exports of organic vegetables, 60% of all Israel’s exports of cherry tomatoes, and 60% of all Israel’s exports of geraniums.
		Gush Katif, whose total sum of exports from greenhouses was $100,000,000, which is 15% of the total agricultural exports of the whole state of Israel—this Gush Katif is gone—given to Arab terrorists now boasting of their victory over Israel.
	www.theraphi.com /ppe/pmogkwdwgfh.html (1512 words)

	Aliyah Blog » Our Move to Gush Katif
		Overcoming daunting odds, the quiet farmers of Gush Katif not only caused the desert literally to bloom but also established a vast agricultural and industrial base, generating thousands of jobs and revenues of several hundred million shekalim annually.
		The true greatness of the farmers and workers of Gush Katif, however, was tested and proved with incomparably greater force in the crucible of suffering, during the past five years’ war of unrelenting terror.
		When we entered Gush Katif (with valid permits), we plainly saw how halfheartedly and lackadaisically ordinary soldiers were enforcing the directives they had received.
	aliyahblog.com /2005/07/29/our_move_to_gush_katif (2562 words)

	GKOS - Gush Katif's Online Store
		In addition, items are being produced that will enable people to demonstrate their identification with and support of Gush Katif.
		The first and main reason is that, by means of the products you will be purchasing, you will be able, wherever you may be, to give practical expression to your identification and support, and to feel that you are an integral part of the Jewish settlement movement in Israel.
		Over the past four years, this website has served as Gush Katif's chief mouthpiece, for the media and for target audiences the world over - all of this, needless to say, without a penny of financial support from any official source.
	shop.katif.net (428 words)

	katif.net in English
		Given the continued Qassam rocket fire, the Jewish Agency has decided to award emergency assistance to small and micro businesses in Sderot and in the Gaza perimeter communities thanks to a special contribution by the United Jewish Communities,The Federations of North America (UJC).
		SELA Disengagement Authority to Hold Ashkelon Lottery for Gush Katif Evacuees
		The Prime Minister's Office SELA Disengagement Authority, in cooperation with the Ashkelon Municipality and the Israel Land Administration, will tomorrow (Wednesday), 17.1.07, at 09:00, at the Ashkelon College Congress Center, hold the first lottery for choosing plots that have been allocated to Gush Katif evacuees at the "Golf Compound" in Ashkelon.
	english.katif.net (312 words)

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		The Gush Katif families, Gaza’s largest settlement bloc, plan to submit a letter to the High Court of Justice stating that while the are opposed to the withdrawal, they would like the court to press the government to move their whole community into Israel to ensure they remain united.
		The army plans to seal off Gaza’s borders to non-residents ahead of the withdrawal in the wake of recent security alerts of protesters who plan to move to the territory to fortify the settlements and help resist the evacuation by Israeli forces.
		About 12 families from West Bank settlements, including the town of Hebron, have already taken refuge in a hotel in Gush Katif.
	www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3090710,00.html (0 words)

	GAMLA: News & Views from Israel ::: The State of the Communities of Gush Katif and Northern Gaza
		They were the last community to be removed from Gush Katif, and the one that removed the menorah from the roof of their synagogue and took it with them when they went that night to pray at the Cotel.
		We came to a barren place — Gush Katif — and did everything we could to develop it, and now we are thrown into an empty location, 200 meters from the train tracks, where everyone lives on top of each other, seeing into each others' homes, in 90 square meters, in a neglected area.
		When he made his last trip back to his Gush Katif operation to remove some final equipment, he discovered that scores of the specialized tables, including electrical and watering equipment, that he used for rerooting new plants were stolen, at a loss of NIS 60,000 — NIS 70,000.
	www.gamla.org.il /english/article/2005/sept/g5.htm (7764 words)

	TheRaphi.com - Gush Katif Stories (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sarah, 28, is wearing a long skirt and an orange T-shirt, the official color of the struggle for Gush Katif.
		As Eyal, Mayan, and their daughter Avia were driving out of Gush Katif, they suddenly saw two Arabs with automatic rifles on the road in front of them running straight toward their car.
		As for Tali Hatuel's husband David, the sole survivor of his family's massacre (he was at his job as a school principal at the time), he continues to stay in the Gush Katif house that was once alive with the sounds of his four children.
	www.theraphi.com /da/july/15.html (2706 words)

	Gush Katif debates using a child's tears vs. a terrorist's smile - Haaretz - Israel News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gush Katif, the Yesha Council of Settlements in Judea, Samaria and Gaza and the Likud members behind the Do Not Separate campaign primarily used a research report titled " A Palestinian Perspective on Settlement Evacuation," which was released last weekend by the Insight on Palestinian Media Institute.
		Gush Katif residents added pictures of the kindergartens in their communities alongside the specific threat that "overnight these kindergartens can be transformed into Islamic Jihad-run kindergartens raising the next generation of shahids."
		The mobilization of Gush Katif residents as well as residents of Judea and Samaria prior to the referendum was almost absolute.
	www.haaretz.com /hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=421503&contrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y (1612 words)

	Gush Katif,Katrina,hurricane Rita,Kfar Maimon mimon,disengagement,Gaza,Antichrist
		Gush Katif is a strip of land bordering Gaza where 21 Jewish Settlements have turned the desert to bloom, as ancient Biblical Prophecy predicts.
		The Disengagement area of Gush Katif in Gaza will be declared a closed military zone, to stop ordinary Israeli civilians from entering the area to oppose the forcible removal of Jews from their homes, businesses, farms, synagogues, schools and graveyards.
		The unbelievable achievement of the gathering protestors against the disenfranchisement of Gush Katif Jews, is that this great number of people took the trouble to travel from all over Israel, as far away as 200 Km., braved the 40 degrees desert heat, facing few or no normal facilities of bathing and food.
	www.revelations.org.za /Gush_Katif.htm (10864 words)

	Planting Is a Form of Protest for Some Gush Katif Farmers
		Gush Katif, Gaza Strip (CNSNews.com) - Farmers in the Jewish settlement bloc of Gush Katif are planting and tending their crops, even though they may not be around to harvest some of those crops when the time comes.
		A spokesman for the SELA (the Hebrew acronym for the government agency set up to assist residents of Gush Katif) said that 588 of the approximately 1,500 families in Gush Katif have applied for compensation from the government.
		Twenty-six families in the small Gush Katif settlement of Peat Sadeh have agreed to move to the farming community of Mavkiim together, he said.
	www.crosswalk.com /1342556 (1070 words)

	Jewish and Israel News from New York - The Jewish Week (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Acknowledging that a number of families evacuated from Gush Katif in the summer of 2005 may be in need of economic assistance, the leadership of UJA-Federation of New York and the United Jewish Communities (UJC) have committed to evaluating the situation first-hand.
		But Krakow said that “however difficult the circumstances are” for the Gush Katif evacuees, “they are hard to compare” with the hundreds of thousands of Israelis who as a result of the war this summer “were in existential danger.
		Leaders of the Gush Katif community say the government is a year behind in building permanent homes for them, and that their unemployment rate is 50 percent, with former farmers particularly affected.
	www.thejewishweek.com /news/newscontent.php3?artid=13450 (1094 words)

	Gush Katif Spokeswoman Roughed Up, Arrested by Police
		Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Debbie Rosen, the spokeswoman for the Gush Katif settlement bloc in the Gaza Strip, says she was thrown to the ground and arrested by police at the Kissufim crossing into Gaza earlier this week.
		In her role as a spokesperson for Gush Katif, which is scheduled to be evacuated beginning next week, Rosen has coordinated numerous stories on the disengagement, which she and other settlers strongly oppose.
		No one remembers that the residents of Gush Katif are really the victims, the ones being taken out of their homes, she said.
	www.crosswalk.com /1345077 (902 words)

	The open wound of Gush Katif
		The people of Gush Katif, much like Tzahi, were until a few weeks ago occupied by the effort to memorialize Gush Katif, but then the war came along and confused everything.
		In the past weeks, many in the Gush Katif community and the national-religious camp have had to redefine, or at least update, their relationship with the state and with the IDF, with whom they have been on bad terms for a long time.
		Sometimes it seems as if the statement "we will yet return to Gush Katif" was intended to absolve them of their obligation to profess loyalty to "the real home." The youth who were born in Gush Katif and who had never known any other home talk about it much more seriously.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1681589/posts (2300 words)

	A Tour of Gush Katif
		Indeed, before I first visited Gush Katif I wondered myself how it was possible to grow anything in sand.
		Their memorial service, which was interrupted by gunfire as the mourners themselves were attacked (A Shameful Picture), was especially difficult to watch.
		In their memory, the people of Gush Katif built a resting place for the soldiers who protect them.
	www.paulasays.com /articles/on_gush_katif/a_tour_of_gush_katif.html (810 words)

	Think-Israel
		In early February 2004 Prime Minister Sharon announced his intention to expel (aka evacuate or relocate or transfer or remove or ethnically cleanse) the almost 8,000 Jewish residents of Gush Katif in Gaza, an integral Halachic part of the Land of Israel in the Tribe of Yehuda (Judah).
		But the true miracle is that although the inhabitants of Gush Katif have experienced tremendous upheavals these past several years, we continue to live, to build and to have strong faith.
		Checks should be made out to the "Friends Of Gush Katif" to AFSI, 1623 Third Ave., Suite 205, New York, N.Y. When you come to Israel, visit the Jews of Gush Katif, whether for a day or more or for a Shabbat.
	www.think-israel.org /kovacs.gushkatif.html (2237 words)

	Gush Katif Stories
		As Eyal, Mayan, and their daughter Avia were driving out of Gush Katif, they suddenly saw two Arabs with automatic rifles on the road in front of them running straight toward their car.
		As for Tali Hatuel's husband David, the sole survivor of his family's massacre (he was at his job as a school principal at the time), he continues to stay in the Gush Katif house that was once alive with the sounds of his four children.
		mayan was a wonderful representative of her neighbors and friends in gush katif- wholesome young Jeish people filled with love of Hashem and His Torah and an abundance of love for the nation and land of Israel.
	www.aish.com /jewishissues/israeldiary/Gush_Katif_Stories.asp (3529 words)

	WoJ - Israelis slay Hamas Thugs firing Missiles into Gush Katif Israel
		IAF helicopter gunship fired a missile at a Hamas terror cell believed responsible for firing mortar shells at Gush Katif settlements from a cemetery in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis.
		Mortar barrages continued to fall on Gush Katif Wednesday afternoon, as the third set of salvos damaged a Gush Katif hothouse and lightly wounded a civilian near a Neve Dekalim synagogue.
		In response on Wednesday, an IAF helicopter gunship fired a missile at a Hamas terror cell believed responsible for firing mortar shells at Gush Katif settlements from a cemetery in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis.
	waronjihad.org /israel180505.html (552 words)

	» Remember the Gush Katif (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Jews of the Gush Katif paid plenty of taxes and produced a viable chunk of Israeli GDP and export.
		Supporters of Gush Katif cowardly refused to make the ultimate moral choice, to shoot at the apostates who came to evict them.
		Please advise what organizations are helping the residents of Gush Katif so that we may make a charitable contribution to do what little we can to help out.
	samsonblinded.org /blog/archives/90 (1630 words)

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