August 11, Kerem Shalom

August 11, Kerem Shalom, originally uploaded by anonimoh2005.

An Israeli boder police officer talks to his soldiers at the end of a Jewish settlement evacuation drill in Kerem Shalom, a communal farm along Israel's border with Gaza, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005. Beginning Aug. 17, some 55,000 soldiers and police will remove some 9,000 Jewish settlers in 21 settlements in the Gaza Strip and four in the West Bank. While officials expect most settlers will leave voluntarily, they are bracing for passive resistance and attacks by Jewish settlers or Palestinian militants. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, Pool)