August 15 Reluctant Neveh Dekalim lets in movers

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Reluctant Neveh Dekalim lets in movers


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TOVAH LAZAROFF and Hilary leila kreiger, THE JERUSALEM POST Aug. 16, 2005

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Hundreds of protesters thwarted the entry of the police into the largest Gaza settlement on Monday morning, but did not prevent scores of moving trucks from driving in to collect residents' possessions later in the day.



In the 500-family community, where most members are quick to explain that disengagement is unlikely to come to pass, Monday was the first day in which signs of a mass relocation were evident. The sudden switch came less than two days before August 17, when the IDF will begin to forcibly evacuate the Gaza settlers.

The protest, during which throngs of demonstrators clustered in the sweltering heat singing "God have mercy on us" and other religious songs and blocking the gate to police, ended by mid-afternoon with just a couple dozen teenagers staging a last-ditch effort to prevent trucks carting one-ton containers from entering the settlement.
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