Diary 17 -18 august

STATUS: Disengagement - Day Four Diary




Last Update: 19/08/2005 11:41



GAZA STRIP SETTLEMENTS


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Atzmona
Wednesday
-- After lengthy negotiations, Atzmona residents agree to evacuate by Sunday.

Bedolah - Evacuated, Wednesday 3 P.M.
Wednesday
-- Morning: Residents attempt to block forces from entering.
-- Late morning: Forces successfully enter settlement to begin forced evacuation while most residents remain barricaded in the synagogue.
-- Residents set tires and at least two homes on fire.
-- Before 2 P.M.: Troops manage to enter Bedolah synagogue.
-- 3 P.M.: Synagogue cleared out.

Dugit - Evacuated, Tuesday

Elei Sinai
-- Some 30 families bolstered by dozens of recently arrived protesters, many of them from the Golan Heights.

Gadid
Friday
-- 11.30 A.M.: Protesters pour oil from rooftops on troops.
-- 11.15 A.M.: Troops begin removal of protesters from home rooftops.
-- 10:10 A.M: Forces enter synagogue to evacuate protesters refusing to leave settlement.
-- 9:15 A.M.: First families leave settlement.
-- 8:15 A.M.: Soldiers break through barricade at entrance to settlement, say evacuation will be complete by sundown.
Wednesday
-- 10:30 A.M.: Evacuation begins.

Gan Or Evacuated, Thursday 9 P.M.
Thursday
-- Late morning: Evacuation begins.
-- Early afternoon: Four houses set on fire.
-- 3 P.M.: Hundreds of infiltrators, two resident families remain in Gan Or.
-- 5:30 P.M.: Security forces complete evacuation of homes, break into synagogue where 150 pullout foes and some settlers are barricaded.
-- 7:15 P.M.: Synagogue completely evacuated, protesters led to buses.

Ganei Tal -- Evacuated, Wednesday 10:30 P.M.
Wednesday
-- Late morning: About 1,000 troops enter settlement to begin forced evacuation.
-- Settlers agree to evacuate voluntarily between 1 P.M.and 3 P.M.
-- By noon: 58 families voluntarily evacuate.
-- 1 P.M: 45 families remain, promise to evacuate after afternoon prayers.
-- 9 P.M.: Two families remain.

Katif
Awaiting evacuation

Kerem Atzmona - Evacuated, Wednesday 3:15 P.M.
Friday
-- 10.45 A.M.: Demolition of settlement begins.
Wednesday
-- Morning: Settlers promise to leave in the afternoon volunarily.
-- Late morning: Residents ask for cardboard packing boxes, which they set on fire.
-- Early afternoon: Young residents begin throwing spikes and fire bombs at troops.
-- Residents begin negotiations with troops, say they might leave after Saturday.
-- Just after 2 P.M.: Troops begin evacuations by force.

Kfar Darom - Evacuated, Thursday
Thursday
-- Early morning: Large IDF and police force enters settlement, surrounds synagogue with protesters barricaded inside and on the roof, where settlers use mirrors to try to blind soldiers.
-- Late morning: Settlers set fire to a bus, police extinguish blaze.
-- Police say those occupying the synagogue are all illegal infiltrators.
-- Just before 10 A.M.: Troops begin evacuating 100 protesters from religious school for girls; protesters offer passive resistance.
-- 10:15 A.M.: 72 pullout foes evacuated from factory.
-- Before 11 A.M.: Soldier at synagogue begins praying, refuses orders. Troops begin evacuating homes.
-- As refusenik is being evacuated by force, another soldier refuses orders.
--Troops remove barricaded pullout opponents from Kfar Darom kindergarten.
-- Associated Press: Woman chases off soldier in Kfar Darom with a syringe she says is infected with AIDS.
-- Just before 2 P.M.: Troops complete evacuation of 80 percent of Kfar Darom houses.
-- 4:45 P.M.: Protesters on rooftop throw paint, milk, eggs, and watermelons on surrounding troops.
-- Troops respond by firing water cannon at protesters.
-- 5 P.M.: Troops break into synagoge, lift cages to rooftop to remove barricaded protesters.
-- 5:20 P.M.: First protesters removed from Kfar Darom synagogue.
-- Protesters on rooftop begin negotiations with troops.
-- 6:30 P.M.: Troops reach synagogue rooftop, attempt to cut through encircling barbed wire; protesters throw paint, sand and oil on troop, attempt to push shipping containers away with long sticks.
-- 7:15 P.M.: Officer injured scaling rooftop when acid is thrown at him.
-- 7:45 P.M.: Forces begin clear rooftop, lowering protesters in cages.

Wednesday
-- 65 families and 2,000 protesters barricade themselves with barbed wire.
-- Just after noon: Residents say that there is a possibility they will evacuate by Thursday.
-- Residents sabotage IDF D-9 bulldozers, cutting cables, piercing tires, and putting sugar in gas tanks.

Kfar Yam - Evacuated, Thursday
Thursday
-- Evacuation set to begin early afternoon.
-- Late morning: Navy patrol boat positioned outside settlement in preparation for evacuation.
-- 1 P.M.: Right-wing extremist leader Aryeh Yitzhaki, holed up with 40 others, waves rifle, warns he will shoot approaching troops.
-- 3 P.M.: Army backs away from mass barricade, Yitzhaki announces he will only shoot if troops fire first.
-- 4 P.M.: 10 youths march into sea, stand 20 meters from beach line and evacuating forces.
-- 6:15 P.M.: Yitzhaki surrenders M-16 file and 2 handguns, forces break into his barricaded house.
-- 6:30 P.M.: Forces begins dragging pullout foes from Yitzhaki's house, rooftop.
-- 7 P.M.: Yitzhaki evacuates barricaded house with his son and an Israeli flag. He says, "I could have launched the second Masada in Shirat Hayam, but I decided to negotiate, so as to avoid loss of life."

Morag - Evacuated, Wednesday 4 P.M.
Wednesday
-- Mid-morning: Army enters settlement, forces its way into homes, arresting numerous protesters.
-- About 100 residents barricade themselves in synagogue for over an hour.
-- Late morning: Residents agree to leave synagogue, army begins escorting settlers from barricade to evacuating buses, carrying many who refuse to walk willfully on their own.
-- Female soldier stabbed by protesting infiltrator with infusion needle, is lightly injured.
-- By 1 P.M.: Five buses leave Morag.
-- 2:30P.M.: 4 families remain.

Netzarim
Wednesday
-- Settlers announce they will leave without struggle on Monday.

Netzer Hazani - Evacuated, Thursday 3 P.M.
Thursday
-- Mid-morning: Residents blocking the gate to the settlement.
-- 10:30 A.M.: Troops arrive at gates, dozens of buses await evacuees.
-- 11 A.M.: Residents barricade gate to prevent buses from leaving.
-- 11:20 A.M.: Residents burn tires.
-- 11:30 A.M.: Residents set fire to hothouses, throw stones, paint cans at forces.
-- 12:30 P.M.: Residents setting fire to homes, gather in synagogue
-- 3 P.M. Residents begin departing ceremony, after which they said they would leave the settlement.

Neveh Dekalim
Thursday
-- Mid-morning: IDF attempts to evacuate remaining families.
-- IDF tells those barricaded in synagogue they can leave voluntarily after prayers at 10:30, after which troops will force their way in.
-- Before 11 A.M.: Evacuation of synagogue, where 1,000-2,000 youths are holed up, begins.
-- 11:45 A.M.: Shas chairman Eli Yishai chants with Yesha leaders.
-- Just before 1 P.M.: Police, Yesha chiefs agree to evacuate Neveh Dekalim synagogue.
-- IDF gives protesters barricaded in synagogue until early afternoon to leave or be forcible evacuated.
-- Several remaining residents set their houses on fire.
-- Protesters spill oil in entrance to synagogue to block evacuating forces.
-- 2:30 P.M.: IDF extends deadline for pullout foes to leave synagogue.
-- 3:20 P.M. Pullout foes barricaded in synagogue given 10 minute ultimatum to evacuate.
-- 3 P.M.: Troops break into Neveh Dekalim Sephardic synagogue, protesters resist, throw plastic bottles, sit on floor with arms linked.
-- Soldier injured during evacuation of synagogue from mass congestion, shoving.
-- Four IDF troops carry Yesha Settlement council member from synagogue. -- 4:30 P.M.: Troops prepare to storm Ashkenazic synagogue, continue evacuation of Sephardic synagogue.
-- 5 P.M: Troops break into Ashkenazic synagogue.
-- 6 P.M.: Six protesters slightly injured in Sephardic synagogue evacuation.
-- 6:15 P.M.: 150-200 women, 50 men still holed up in Kfar Darom synagogue compound.
-- 6:45 P.M.: Men evacuated from synagogue, Torah scrolls removed.

Wednesday
-- Throughout day: Hundreds of youths barricade themselves in synagogues.
-- Mid-morning: Three buses carrying arrestees, mostly non-residents, leave settlement.
-- Protesters throw eggs and plastic bottles at troops.
-- Late morning: Settlers say they will leave at 4 P.M. when they conclude afternoon prayers.
-- 1 P.M.: Troops have evacuated 158 homes.
-- IDF and settlement leaders strike a deal to postpone the evacuation of the synagogue until Thursday.
-- 8:00 P.M.: evacuation operations end for the night; 60 families (out of 460) remain along with many infiltrators.
Tuesday
-- Midnight: Nearly half of residents had left their homes.

Nissanit - Evacuated, Tuesday

Pe'at Sadeh - Evacuated, Tuesday

Rafiah Yam - Evacuated, Tuesday

Shirat Hayam - Evacuated, Thursday
Thursday
-- Evacuation set to begin early afternoon.
-- Protesters barricade entrance.
-- 11:45 A.M.: Settlers torch barriade at entrance to settlement.
-- 11:45 A.M.: Settlers go to Muasi neighborhood, throw rocks at Palestinians.
-- 12:30 P.M.: Bulldozers removing barricades at entrance.
-- 1:15 P.M.: IDF penatraters entrance gate, begins to head inside.
-- 1:30 P.M.: Troops begin forced evacuation of settlement.
-- One extremist arrested for attempting to attack a soldier.
-- 2:30 P.M.: Buses enter Shirat Hayam, troops forcibly remove residents and pullout foes, dragging some to buses.
-- 3 P.M.: First bus carrying residents and pullout foes leaves settlement.
-- Troops forcibly remove another ten pullout foes barricaded in house.
-- A group of youths leave Shirat Hayam by raft, pursued by Navy boats.
-- Troops march toward synagogue to break barricade.
-- IDF forces attempt to take over settlement public address system.
-- 5 P.M.: Troops clear out one barricaded rooftop, prepare for second.
-- Forces remove 10 women and girls barricaded on second rooftop.
-- 6 P.M.: Troops complete evacuation of second rooftop.
-- 6:30 P.M.: Protesters evacuate nursery school without resistance.
-- 7:15 P.M.: Synagogue completely evacuated.
-- 7:30 P.M.: Forces complete evacuation of third rooftop.

Slav - Evacuated, Tuesday

Tel Katifa - Evacuated, Wednesday 2:30 P.M.
Wednesday
-- Late morning: Residents and army reach agreement on implementing evacuation without force.
-- Settlers organizing departing ceremony, preparing for orderly evacuation.
-- Just after noon: Residents begin to voluntarily evacuate, many insist to be carried to buses by troops to demonstrate their opposition to leaving.

WEST BANK SETTLEMENTS

Ganim
All residents have left voluntarily.

Kadim
All residents have left voluntarily.

Sa-Nur
Awaiting evacuation

Homesh
Awaiting evacuation