Dugit (Hebrew:דוגית) was an Israeli settlement located in the northern tip of the Gaza Strip closet to the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in a mini-settlement bloc including Elei Sinai and Nisanit. While Dugit was under the municipal authority of the Hof Aza Regional Council it was not physically in the Gush Katif bloc where the bulk of the 'Gush Katif' settlements were located. Dugit is Hebrew for dinghy. Hebrew (עִבְרִית ‘Ivrit) is a Semitic language of the Afro-Asiatic language family spoken by more than seven million people in Israel, the West Bank, the United States, and by Jewish communities around the world. ... Map of Israeli settlements, in navy blue, in the West Bank Israeli settlements are communities built for Israeli Jewish settlers in areas that it captured during the 1967 Six-Day War. ... Satellite image The Mediterranean Sea is a part of the Atlantic Ocean almost completely enclosed by land, on the north by Europe, on the south by Africa, and on the east by Asia. ... Nisanit was an Israeli settlement in Gaza Strip north of Gush Katif. ... A municipality or general-purpose district (compare with: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. ... Gush Katif Gush Katif (also Gush Katiff, Hebrew: גוש קטיף, English: Harvest Belt) was a bloc of 16 Israeli settlements in the southern Gaza Strip. ...

The non-religious Jewish yishuv was founded in May 1990 by a group of three families of fishermen close to the Shikma Beach with the assistance of the Amana settlement organization. These families, and others that joined later on, lived in trailers for about ten years until permanent homes were built. Another building expansion project was already in advanced planning stages. The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... Yishuv is a Hebrew word meaning settlement. ... This article is about the year. ... Categories: Hebrew Bible/Tanakh-related stubs | Hebrew Bible/Tanakh places ...

The main source of income was from the sea: fishing, rescue services, fish ponds, tourism, fish restaurants, etc. Fishing is the activity of hunting for fish. ...

Unlike virtually all the other settlements slated for destruction as part of the disengagement plan which were evacuated by the Israeli Army and Israeli Police, the families of Dugit chose to cooperate with the eviction orders and most had already packed and abandonned their homes before the official date. Israels unilateral disengagement plan (Hebrew: תוכנית ההתנתקות (the official name) or תוכנית ההנתקות; also known as the disengagement plan, Gaza Pull-Out plan, and Gaza Expulsion plan by its opponents) is a proposal by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to remove all permanent Israeli presence in the Gaza Strip and from northern Samaria... The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) (Hebrew: צבא ההגנה לישראל Tsva Ha-Haganah Le-Yisrael ([Army] Force [for] the Defense of Israel), often abbreviated צהל Tsahal, alternative English spelling Tzahal, is the name of Israels armed forces (army, air force and navy). ... Israeli Police logo The Israeli police (משטרת ישראל) is a civilian force in the State of Israel. ...