August 19

Eliya Aricha, 12, stands in the hotel room where he and his three brothers were placed after being evacuated from the Gaza Strip settlement of Neve Dekalim by the Israeli governement, in the coastal city of Ashkelon, southern Israel, Friday Aug. 19, 2005. Inside the low-rent guesthouse, dozens of settler families, like hundreds of others housed in hotels across the country, sit in quiet shock after being removed from their Gaza homes in the past few days. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)