August 10 - Kerem Shalom

August 10 - Kerem Shalom, originally uploaded by anonimoh2005.

An Israeli soldier rests by the swimming pool in the village of Bat-Hadar in southern Israel Wednesday Aug. 10, 2005, a day before the troops join the final dress rehearsal for the evacuation of Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip. About 10,000 soldiers participated in their final exercise ahead of the pullout Wednesday at Kerem Shalom, a communal farm along Israel's border with Gaza. Beginning next Wednesday, Israel plans to withdraw from all 21 Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip and four small enclaves in the West Bank. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, Pool)