Homes alongside a sand dune in Neve Dekalim.

Gush Katif (Hebrew: גוש קטיף‎, English: "Harvest Bloc") was a bloc of 17 Israeli settlements in the southern Gaza strip. In August 2005, the 8,000 residents of Gush Katif were forced to leave the area and their homes demolished as part of Israel's unilateral disengagement plan. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (2272 × 1704 pixel, file size: 934 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Gush Katif Metadata... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (2272 × 1704 pixel, file size: 934 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Gush Katif Metadata... Wikinews has news related to this article: Israeli troops remove protesters from Gaza synagogue Neve Dekalim was an Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip, founded in 1983 after the Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula. ... “Hebrew” redirects here. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Israeli settlement. ... 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in August August 31: Michael Sheard August 26: Lord Fitt August 24: Jack Slipper August 24: Maurice Cowling August 24: Dr. Tom Pashby August 23: Brock Peters August 22: Lord Lane August 21: Robert Moog August... Israels unilateral disengagement plan (Hebrew: תוכנית ההתנתקות Tokhnit HaHitnatkut or תכנית ההינתקות Tokhnit HaHinatkut in the Disengagement Plan Implementation Law), also known as the Disengagement plan, Gaza Pull-Out plan, and Hitnatkut) was a proposal by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, adopted by the government and enacted in August 2005, to remove all...

Geography

Gush Katif was located in the south-west edge of the Gaza Strip, bordered on the southwest by Rafah and the Egyptian border, on the east by Khan Yunis, on the northeast by Deir el-Balah, and on the west and northwest by the Mediterranean Sea. A narrow one-kilometer strip of land populated by Bedouin Palestinians known as al-Mawasi lay along the Mediterranean coast. Most of Gush Katif was situated on the sand dunes which separate the coastal plain from the sea along much of the southeastern Mediterranean. Rafah (Arabic: رفح Hebrew: רפיח) is a town in the Gaza Strip, on the Egyptian border, and a nearby town on the Egyptian side of the border, on the Sinai Peninsula. ... Khan Yunis (Arabic: ‎; literally Jonahs Inn) is a city and adjacent refugee camp in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. ... Deir Al-Balah, Deir El-Balah, Deir ElBalah, Deir AlBalah (دير البلح) is located at the center of the Gaza Strip in Palestine and is well-known for its beaches and palm trees. ... Composite satellite image of the Mediterranean Sea. ... A Bedouin man on a hillside at Mount Sinai Bedouin, derived from the Arabic ( ), a name for a desert-dweller, is a term generally applied to Arab nomadic pastoralist groups, who are found throughout most of the desert belt extending from the Atlantic coast of the Sahara via the Western... al-Mawasi is an area on the coast of the Gaza Strip, approximately one kilometer wide and fourteen kilometers long, that prior to Israels unilateral withdrawal in 2005 existed as a Palestinian enclave completely surrounded by the Israeli settlement of Gush Katif. ... This article is about the sand formations, for other meanings see Dune (disambiguation) Mesquite Flat Dunes in Death Valley National Park In physical geography, a dune is a hill of sand built by eolian (wind-related) processes. ... In geography, a coastal plain is an area of flat, low-lying land adjacent to a seacoast and separated from the interior by other features. ...

Two roads served the residents of Gush Katif: Road 230 which runs from the southwest along the sea from the Egyptian border at Rafiah Yam through Kfar Yam to Tel Katifa on the bloc's northern border, where it entered Palestinian controlled territory, and Road 240, which also runs parallel to the sea approximately one kilometre inland, and upon which the majority of the settlements and traffic were located. Road 240's southern end turned south to reach Morag and continues to Sufah and the Shalom bloc of villages south of the Gaza strip, while its northern end turned east to the Kissufim junction, and served as the main route into Gush Katif. The Israeli settlement of Rafiah Yam was originally established in 1984 as a secular community in the southern end of the Gush Katif settlement bloc, only 200 metres from the Egyptian border and close to the Palestinian city of Rafah. ... Kfar Yam was a small outpost and one of the Gaza Strip Israeli Settlements. ... Tel Katifa (תל קטיפה), was a small Israeli settlement located in the northeast end of the Gush Katif settlement bloc of the Gaza Strip, and evacuated in Israels disengagement of 2005. ... Morag is a lake monster reported to inhabit Loch Morar in Scotland. ... Kissufim is the name of an Israeli kibbutz several miles from Israels border with the Gaza strip. ...

While Kfar Darom and Netzarim were originally accessed along the main road to Gaza (known as "Tencher Road"), Israeli and Palestinian traffic was separated after the Oslo Accords, and Netzarim was isolated as an enclave accessed only through the Karni crossing and the Sa'ad junction. In 2002, a bridge was built for Road 240 over the Tencher road so as to physically separate the two arteries and allow unobstructed travel for both Palestinian and Israeli traffic. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Wikinews has news related to this article: Last Gaza settlement cleared, West Bank towns prepare to resist The Israeli settlement of Netzarim was created as a kibbutz in 1984 (the kibbutz split a few years later in order to become a village). ... Not to be confused with the Spanish name Garza or the Egyptian town of Giza. ... Yitzhak Rabin, Bill Clinton, and Yasser Arafat during the Oslo Accords on September 13, 1993. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Karni Crossing is a cargo terminal in the Israeli Gaza Strip barrier. ... Kibbutz Saad is an Israeli Religious Kibbutz that is part of the HaKibbutz HaDati umbrella organization. ...

Demographics

Neve Dekalim was Gush Katif's urban center and home to the greatest population.

About 8,000 residents lived in Gush Katif, many of them Orthodox Religious Zionist Jews, though many non-observant and secular Jews also called it home. The area also included several hundred Muslim families, mostly of the al-Mawasi Bedouin community, who while technically Palestinian residents, were able to enjoy freedom of movement within the Israeli areas due to their peaceful relations. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (2272 × 1704 pixel, file size: 912 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Gush Katif Metadata... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (2272 × 1704 pixel, file size: 912 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Gush Katif Metadata... Wikinews has news related to this article: Israeli troops remove protesters from Gaza synagogue Neve Dekalim was an Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip, founded in 1983 after the Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula. ... Orthodox Judaism is the formulation of Judaism that adheres to a relatively strict interpretation and application of the laws and ethics first canonised in the Talmudic texts (Oral Torah) and as subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and Acharonim. ... Religious Zionism, or the Religious Zionist Movement, a branch of which is also called Mizrachi, is an ideology that claims to combine Zionism and Judaism, to base Zionism on the principles of Jewish religion and heritage. ... Secular Jewish culture embraces several related phenomena; above all, it is the culture of secular communities of Jewish people, but it can also include the cultural contributions of individuals who identify as secular Jews, or even those of religious Jews working in cultural areas not generally considered to be connected... al-Mawasi is an area on the coast of the Gaza Strip, approximately one kilometer wide and fourteen kilometers long, that prior to Israels unilateral withdrawal in 2005 existed as a Palestinian enclave completely surrounded by the Israeli settlement of Gush Katif. ... A Bedouin man on a hillside at Mount Sinai Bedouin, derived from the Arabic ( ), a name for a desert-dweller, is a term generally applied to Arab nomadic pastoralist groups, who are found throughout most of the desert belt extending from the Atlantic coast of the Sahara via the Western...

See also: Population statistics for Israeli Gaza Strip settlements

// Population Statistic Sources * Source: List of Localities: Their Population and Codes, 31. ...

History

While the village of Kfar Darom existed in the 1930s and 1940s until the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Gush Katif began in earnest when in 1968, Yigal Allon presented an initiative for the founding of two Nahal or civilian Israeli settlements in the center of the Gaza strip. He viewed the breaking of the continuity between the northern and southern Arab settlements as vital to Israel's security in the area, which had been captured the previous year in the 1967 Six-Day War. In 1970, Kfar Darom was reestablished as the first of many Israeli agricultural villages in the area. Allon's idea was ultimately designed with five key areas (or 'fingers,' thus being called by some the "five-finger print") slated for Israeli presence along the length of the Gaza strip. After the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty and the dismantling of the fifth 'finger' (Yamit bloc) south of Rafah, the fourth (Morag) and third (Kfar Darom) strips were united into one bloc that would become known as Gush Katif. The second finger, Netzarim, was very much connected to Gush Katif until the arrangements following the Oslo Accords, while the bloc on the dunes north of Gaza at Gush Erez, which straddled the Green Line, was more a part of the Ashkelon area communities.[3] To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Combatants  Israel, Foreign Volunteers Egypt, Syria, Transjordan,  Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Holy War Army, Arab Liberation Army Commanders Yaakov Dori, Yigael Yadin John Bagot Glubb, Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, Hasan Salama, Fawzi Al-Qawuqji, Ahmed Ali al-Mwawi Strength  Israel: 29,677 initially rising to 115,000 by... Yigal Allon (Hebrew: ; October 10, 1918- February 29, 1980) was an Israeli Labour Party statesman. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Israeli settlement. ... Combatants Israel Egypt Syria Jordan Iraq Saudi Arabia Commanders Yitzhak Rabin, Moshe Dayan, Uzi Narkiss, Israel Tal, Mordechai Hod, Ariel Sharon Abdel Hakim Amer, Abdul Munim Riad, Zaid ibn Shaker, Hafez al-Assad Strength 264,000 (incl. ... The Israel-Egypt peace treaty (Arabic: معاهدة السلام المصرية الإسرائيلية; transliterated: Muahadat as-Salam al-Masriyah al-Israyliyah) (Hebrew: הסכם שלום ישראל-מצרים; transliterated: Heskem Shalom Yisrael-Mizraim) was signed in Washington, DC, United States, on March 26, 1979, following the Camp David Accords (1978). ... Yamit (ימית) was an Israeli settlement in the Sinai Peninsula established during Israels occupation of the peninsula from the end of the 1967 Six Day War until that part of the Sinai was handed over to Egypt in 1982 as part of the terms of the Egypt–Israel peace treaty. ... Morag is a lake monster reported to inhabit Loch Morar in Scotland. ... Netzarim are the sprigs that shoot off from a branch or trunk of a tree. ... Yitzhak Rabin, Bill Clinton, and Yasser Arafat during the Oslo Accords on September 13, 1993. ... Israels 1949 Green Line (dark green) and demilitarized zones (light green). ... Hebrew אַשְׁקְלוֹן (Standard) AÅ¡qÉ™lon Arabic عسقلان Founded in 1951 Government City Also Spelled Ashqelon (officially) District South Population 105,100 (2004) Jurisdiction 55,000 dunams (55 km²) Mayor Roni Mahatzri Ashkelon (Hebrew: ‎; Tiberian Hebrew ʾAÅ¡qÉ™lôn; Arabic: ‎  ; Latin: Ascalon) is a city in the western Negev, in the...

Throughout the 1980s new communities were established, especially with the influx of former residents of the Sinai. Most of the bloc's communities were established as agricultural cooperatives called moshavs, where the residents from each town would work in clusters of greenhouses just outside the residential areas. Sinai Peninsula, Gulf of Suez (west), Gulf of Aqaba (east) from Space Shuttle STS-40 For other uses of the word Sinai, please see: Sinai (disambiguation). ... Moshav (Hebrew: מושב Translit. ... A greenhouse in Saint Paul, Minnesota. ...

Economy

Hothouses, like these in Morag, were the center of the bloc's industry.

In the Katif Bloc’s unique hothouses, a uniquely developed advanced technology was used to grow bug-free leafy vegetables and herbs answering to the strictest health, aesthetic and religious requirements. Most of the chemical-free organic agricultural products were exported to Europe. In addition, the community of Atzmona had Israel’s largest plant nursery, and with 800 cows, the Katif dairy was the second largest in the country. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (2272 × 1704 pixel, file size: 914 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Gush Katif Metadata... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (2272 × 1704 pixel, file size: 914 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Gush Katif Metadata... Morag is a lake monster reported to inhabit Loch Morar in Scotland. ... Chinese cabbage Swiss chard Leaf vegetables, also called greens or leafy greens, are plant leaves eaten as a vegetable, sometimes accompanied by tender petioles and shoots. ... Herbs: basil Herbs (IPA: hÉ™()b, or É™b; see pronunciation differences) are seed-bearing plants without woody stems, which die down to the ground after flowering. ... Look up kosher in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Organic farming is a form of agriculture which avoids or largely excludes the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, plant growth regulators, and livestock feed additives. ... Bnei Atzmon (Hebrew: ) was an Israeli settlement originally founded in 1979 in the Yamit region of the Sinai peninsula as a response to Camp David Accords which promoted trading territory for peace. ... Katif (קטיף) is a Jewish moshav in the Gush Katif region of the Gaza Strip, about 1 km north of the Palestinian refugee camp of Dir el-Balah. ...

The total sum of exports from the greenhouses of Gush Katif, which were owned by 200 farmers, came to $200,000,000 per year and made up 15% of the agricultural exports of the State of Israel.

The combined assets in Gush Katif were estimated at $23 billion.

Of Israel’s total exports abroad, Gush Katif exported:

• 95% of bug-free lettuce and greens
• 70% of organic vegetables
• 60% of cherry tomatoes
• 60% of geraniums to Europe.

The Economic Cooperation Foundation, which is funded by the European Union, agreed to purchase the hothouses for $14 million and transfer ownership to the Palestinian Authority, so that the 4,000 Palestinians employed to work in them could keep their jobs. Former head of the World Bank, James Wolfensohn, contributed $500,000 of his own money to the project. The Economic Cooperation Foundation (ECF) was founded by former Minister of Justice Dr. Yossi Beilin and by Dr. Yair Hirschfeld at the end of 1990 as a non-profit non-governmental organization, whose objectives are to build, maintain and support Israeli-Palestinian and Israeli-Arab cooperation in the political, economic... Anthem: Biladi Capital Ramallah and Gaza de facto, as the current location of government institutions. ... ... James D. Wolfensohn (2003) James Wolfensohn AO KBE (born December 1, 1933) was the ninth president of the World Bank Group. ...

When the IDF left Gaza, thousands of Palestinians looted the area, and 800 of the 4,000 hothouses were left unusable.[4][5][6]

Palestinian attacks

Sand dunes near the sea

Although the Gush Katif settlements and the roads leading to it were guarded by the Israeli Army's Gaza Division, settlers were still vulnerable to attacks. Image File history File links GushKatif2. ... Image File history File links GushKatif2. ... 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... The Israel Defense Forces Gaza Division (Regional), is subordinate to the Southern Regional Command. ...

During the First Intifada (1987-1990), which broke out in nearby Gaza, the residents of Gush Katif were on the forefront of the violence and were subject to frequent stoning of traffic among other incidents. The First Intifada, or Palestinian uprising refers to a series of violent incidents between Palestinians and Israelis between 1987 and approximately 1990. ...

Since the beginning of the al-Aqsa Intifada (2000), Gush Katif settlements were the target of thousands of violent attacks by Palestinian militants. More than 6000 mortar bombs and Qassam rockets were launched into Gush Katif, causing mostly property and psychological damage with very few fatalities, but heavy shock and fear. Most of the ground attacks were infiltrations and shootings. In one of these attacks, three Palestinian children, aged 14, 12 and 8–10, infiltrated a settlement and tried to stab unarmed Jewish children. There were also attempts to infiltrate by sea. For other uses, see al-Aqsa (disambiguation). ... US soldier loading a M224 60-mm mortar. ... The remnants of an exploded Qassam rocket that was fired from the Gaza Strip at Israel. ... See: espionage, urban exploration, entryism, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning. ...

Palestinian attacks on Israeli vehicles traveling on the Kissufim road were very common. In one of these attacks, in May 2004, Palestinian militants killed Tali Hatuel, who was eight months pregnant, and her four daughters, aged two to 11. In another, a school bus was bombed, leaving two dead and several maimed children. Tali Hatuel Tali Hatuel was an Israeli social worker who, along with her four daughters aged 2 to 11, was shot at close range and killed on May 2, 2004 by armed Palestinian terrorists. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Many of the ground attacks on Gush Katif were thwarted by the Israeli military.

Controversy

A Gush Katif beach

Gush Katif's location within the greater Gaza Strip was for many a source of controversy. Image File history File links GushKatif1. ... Image File history File links GushKatif1. ...

Its location was initially the main reason for its founding, as an Israeli civilian presence was deemed important for cementing control of the area so as to prevent any future invasion from Egypt or its use as a staging area for fedayeen attacks, and indeed this rationale was echoed following the 1967 Six Day War by the US Joint Chiefs of Staff^[1] Fedayeen (from the Arabic fidāī, plural fidāīyun, فدائيون: one who is ready to sacrifice his life, Armenian: ) describes several distinct, primarily Arab groups at different times in history. ... Joint Chiefs of Staff of the United States of America symbol The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) is a grouping comprising the Chiefs of service of each major branch of the armed services in the United States armed forces. ...

As Israeli-Palestinian conflict ensued, the security argument was adapted to assert that an Israeli presence prevented heavy bombardment of long-range Katyusha rockets on Israeli towns such as Sderot and Ashkelon, and served as an outpost for intelligence gathering and preemption against suicide bombers and other infiltrators. Israel, with the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which is often claimed to be at the heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict, is an ongoing dispute between two peoples, Jewish Israelis and Arab Palestinians, who both claim the right to sovereignty over the Land... Katyusha multiple rocket launchers are a type of rocket artillery built and fielded by the Soviet Union beginning in the Second World War. ... Sederot (Hebrew: (help·info); unofficially also spelled Sderot) is a city in the Southern District of Israel in Israel. ... Hebrew אַשְׁקְלוֹן (Standard) AÅ¡qÉ™lon Arabic عسقلان Founded in 1951 Government City Also Spelled Ashqelon (officially) District South Population 105,100 (2004) Jurisdiction 55,000 dunams (55 km²) Mayor Roni Mahatzri Ashkelon (Hebrew: ‎; Tiberian Hebrew ʾAÅ¡qÉ™lôn; Arabic: ‎  ; Latin: Ascalon) is a city in the western Negev, in the... A suicide bombing is a bomb attack on people or property, committed by a person who knows the explosion will cause his or her own death in addition to the attacks primary purpose (see suicide, suicide weapons). ...

Many advocates of settlement in Gush Katif viewed it as part of the Land of Israel and thus subject to a theological injunction for settlement, and some also asserted a right of return to Gaza, as Jews had been living there for over 1600 years until they were moved out by the British during the 1929 Palestine riots.^[2] Kingdom of Israel: Early ancient historical Israel — land in pink is the approximate area under direct central royal administration during the United Monarchy. ... The term Right of return refers to the principle in international law that members of an ethnic or national group have a right to immigration and naturalization into the country that they, the destination country, or both consider to be that groups homeland, independent of prior personal citizenship in... Not to be confused with the Spanish name Garza or the Egyptian town of Giza. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

However critics of Gush Katif pointed to some of the same arguments as reasons to discontinue settlement there. Especially as Palestinian attacks intensified to unprecedented levels during the al-Aqsa Intifada and the Israeli military presence increased proportionally, the bloc was seen by some as being an unnecessary theatre of confrontation that acted as a drain on the IDF's resources, especially in extreme cases such as Netzarim in which during certain periods of intense violence on the roads was only accessible via helicopter. The increasing security measures taken by the IDF including checkpoints and restrictions on Palestinian travel, as well as the creation of extended buffer zones near settlements were also seen as negatively impacting the Palestinian population's human rights. Other critics pointed to the occupation of part the Gaza Strip's land by the settlements for a small population, relative to the extremely dense Palestinian population of the Gaza Strip, and despite Gush Katif's having been constructed on barren sand dunes, it was also criticised for blocking access to 1/3 of the Strip's seashore from cities such as Rafah and Khan Yunis. For example, Palestinians were forcibly banned from the beaches near Israeli settlements and forbidden to use Gaza's coastal road in these areas. For other uses, see al-Aqsa (disambiguation). ... An Israel Defense Forces checkpoint, usually called an Israeli checkpoint (Hebrew: מחסום, machsom), is a barrier put forth by the Israel Defense Forces to enhance the security of Israel and prevent those who wish to harm it from entering the country. ...

Evacuation

Main article: Israel's unilateral disengagement plan

On August 13, 2005, the Gush Katif region was closed to non-residents, in keeping with the plan to evacuate the Katif bloc. Though effectively violating the Disengagement law which most residents viewed as highly immoral and illegitimate, most settlers did not voluntarily leave their homes or even pack in preparation of the eviction. On August 15, 2005, the forcible evacuation of the Gush Katif settlements began. On August 22, 2005, the residents of the last settlement, Netzarim, were evicted. In essence, many residents returned to pack the contents of their homes and the Israeli government began the destruction of all residential buildings. On September 12, 2005, the Israeli Army withdrew from each settlement up to the Green Line. All public buildings (schools, libraries, community centres, office buildings) as well as industrial buildings, factories and hothouses which could not be taken apart were left intact. Israels unilateral disengagement plan (Hebrew: תוכנית ההתנתקות Tokhnit HaHitnatkut or תכנית ההינתקות Tokhnit HaHinatkut in the Disengagement Plan Implementation Law), also known as the Disengagement plan, Gaza Pull-Out plan, and Hitnatkut) was a proposal by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, adopted by the government and enacted in August 2005, to remove all... is the 225th day of the year (226th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 227th day of the year (228th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... August 22, 2005 (Monday) Iraqs parliament receives a draft of that countrys constitution, minutes before the revised deadline. ... is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Israels 1949 Green Line (dark green) and demilitarized zones (light green). ...

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Settlements in Gush Katif

• Bedolah בדולח (lit. Crystal)
• Bnei Atzmon בני עצמון
• Gadid גדיד (lit. picking of palm tree fruits)
• Gan Or גן אור (lit. Garden of light)
• Ganei Tal גני טל (lit. Gardens of dew)
• Kfar Darom כפר דרום (lit. Village of the South)
• Kfar Yam כפר ים (lit. Village of sea)
• Kerem Atzmona כרם עצמונה
• Morag מורג (lit. Harvest scythe)
• Neve Dekalim נוה דקלים (lit. Palm tree Oasis)
• Netzer Hazani נצר חזני
• Pe'at Sade פאת שדה (lit. the edge of the field)
• Katif קטיף (lit. harvest, picking of flowers)
• Rafiah Yam רפיח ים
• Shirat Hayam שירת הים (lit. Song of the Sea)
• Slav שליו(lit. Quail)
• Tel Katifa תל קטיפא

The Gush Katif settlements were concentrated in one block in the south-west edge of the Gaza Strip and were surrounded by fence. Bedolah (בדולח) was an Israeli settlement in the Gush Katif settlement bloc, located in the south-west edge of the Gaza Strip, and evacuated in Israels disengagement of 2005. ... The Israeli settlement of Bnei Atzmon was founded in 1979 in the Yamit region of the Sinai peninsula, and relocated to the Gush Katif region after the signing of the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty and subsequent evacuation of Sinai in 1982. ... Gadid (גדיד) was an Israeli settlement located in the middle of the Gush Katif settlement bloc and evacuated in Israels disengagement of 2005. ... Genera Many; see list of Arecaceae genera Arecaceae (also known as Palmae or Palmaceae), the palm family, is a family of flowering plants, belonging to the monocot order Arecales. ... Gan Or (גן אור) was an Israeli settlement located in the Gush Katif settlement bloc and evacuated in Israels disengagement of 2005. ... Ganei Tal setttlement in Gaza Ganei Tal (גני טל) is an Israeli settlement in the southern end of the Gaza Strip. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Kfar Yam was a small outpost and one of the Gaza Strip Israeli Settlements. ... Kerem Atzmona (Hebrew: כרם עצמונה) was an Israeli settlement in the Gush Katif settlement bloc, located in the south-west edge of the Gaza Strip, and evacuated in Israels disengagement of 2005. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikinews has news related to this article: Israeli troops remove protesters from Gaza synagogue Neve Dekalim was an Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip, founded in 1983 after the Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula. ... Netzer Hazani (נצר חזני) was an Israeli settlement located in the northeast corner of the Gush Katif settlement bloc and evacuated in Israels disengagement of 2005. ... Map of Gush Katif The Israeli settlement of Peat Sadeh was originally established in 1989 by a group of families on the Slav Israeli Army base in the southern end of Gush Katif and moved to its permanent site on an adjacent hill in 1993. ... Katif (קטיף) is a Jewish moshav in the Gush Katif region of the Gaza Strip, about 1 km north of the Palestinian refugee camp of Dir el-Balah. ... The Israeli settlement of Rafiah Yam was originally established in 1984 as a secular community in the southern end of the Gush Katif settlement bloc, only 200 metres from the Egyptian border and close to the Palestinian city of Rafah. ... Shirat Hayam (Hebrew:שירת הים), lit. ... Slav (שליו), (quail in Hebrew), was an Israeli settlement in the Gush Katif settlement bloc, located in the south-west edge of the Gaza Strip, and evacuated in Israels disengagement of 2005. ... Tel Katifa (תל קטיפה), was a small Israeli settlement located in the northeast end of the Gush Katif settlement bloc of the Gaza Strip, and evacuated in Israels disengagement of 2005. ...

In addition to Gush Katif, there were three Israeli settlements at Gush Erez on the north edge of the Gaza Strip (Elei Sinai, Dugit and Nisanit), and another near its center (Netzarim). Elei Sinai (Hebrew: ) was a community settlement in the north of Gaza Strip. ... 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. ... Nisanit was an Israeli settlement in Gaza Strip north of Gush Katif. ... Wikinews has news related to this article: Last Gaza settlement cleared, West Bank towns prepare to resist The Israeli settlement of Netzarim was created as a kibbutz in 1984 (the kibbutz split a few years later in order to become a village). ...

See also

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• Gaza strip
• Israeli settlement
• Population statistics for Israeli Gaza Strip settlements
• Religious Zionism
• Occupied territories
• Israeli-occupied territories

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Notes

1. ^  Foundation for Middle East Peace, "Settlements in the Gaza Strip".

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3. ^ JOSEF FEDERMAN/Associated Press. "First Israeli Army Convoys Depart Gaza", September 11, 2005. 
4. ^ Associated Press. "Palestinians set Gaza synagogues on fire", September 12, 2005. 

Further reading

• Map of Gaza Strip, showing settlements
• Gush Katif official website (Hebrew), English version
• Virtual Tour of Gush Katif
• Gaza population figures
• Gush Katif music video
• The Gaza Strip Jewish Virtual Library
• Photos: Gaza Withdrawal Newsday.com (104 photos)
• Jewish Settlements, Outposts Expanding Despite Pledges Growth Most Striking in Gaza Strip, Report Says, By John Ward Anderson, Washington Post Foreign Service, Friday, July 23, 2004; Page A26

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External links

• Yad-Katif - Gush Katif Memorial - Videos, songs and thousands of photos
• Gush Katif Committee established after the disengagement