August 8 -

Israeli border police enter the Tseelim military base, in southern Israel's Negev desert, Monday, Aug. 8, 2005, on their way to a mock Jewish settlement evacuation training. In the desert sands of southern Israel, a mock Arab town built to train Israeli soldiers to combat the Palestinian uprising has been temporarily rebranded as a Jewish settlement and troops are now practising how to dislodge settlers who refuse to leave when Israel's Gaza withdrawal gets under way on Aug. 17. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, pool)