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Sunday was Tisha B'Av, a day of fasting when Jews remember the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem. It was also the last day before the Gush Katif settlement bloc in the Gaza Strip would be sealed off, and all residents would be expected to leave...
Late Monday afternoon, the first day of the disengagement from Gaza, Avi Firouz sat on the staircase of his home in Dugit waiting for an army truck to take him, his son Eden and the last of his belongings to his new home in Netiv Ha'asara, a seven minute ride away. It would be his last journey from his home to the house he will rent in the Israeli village just across the border. He will no longer be allowed back into the Gaza Strip...
...Three Things From Israel's Pullout TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief Matt Rees on the events in Gaza...
...Settlers' Lament As Israel evacuates the Gaza Strip, TIME follows three American-Israeli families who face giving up the lives they have built there. Don't expect all of them to go quietly
Haim Gross says he does not intend to quit even Gaza quietly. If the soldiers try to remove his family by force, he says, "we'll lock the house, chain ourselves together and pray." He believes such images of resistance, pitting Jew against Jew, will spur the nation to reject any more withdrawals from occupied land. But when the knock on the door comes at the Hilburg house, the moment Bryna calls "a calamity," her family "will be here at the table, drinking coffee. And when the soldiers arrive, we'll offer them a cup." Sammy breaks in. "And then...