Disengagement

MKs attend reestablishment of West Bank settlement of Ganim, 21 years after disengagement

Katz and MK Yuli Edelstein attended the inauguration ceremony, breaking ground alongside Samaria Regional Council Yossi Dagan and several other members of Knesset.

Jews return to the former settlement of Ganim in the northern West Bank, which was evacuated in 2005 as part of Israel’s Disengagement Plan, August 13, 2026.
GUSH KATIF’S pioneers made the desert bloom: Entrance to Neveh Dekalim, seen July 2005.

Why Israel must reverse the 2005 Gaza withdrawal, resettle Gush Katif - opinion

The Jerusalem Dispatch

The Jerusalem Dispatch: 20 years since disengagement

Former prime minister Ariel Sharon is seen in an archive image taken during the 1980s

Gaza Disengagement, revisited: Sharon’s gamble, Israel’s price


The endgame imperative

Only a clear vision of the final goal – a sovereign Palestinian state coupled with a final ‘end of the conflict’– could motivate compliance by both sides.

A major problem – the evacuation of settlers.

What would happen if Israel withdrew from the West Bank and ended the ‘siege’ of Gaza

Within the next five years, expect Israel to begin to unilaterally disengage from the West Bank.

IDF soldier detains a Palestinian during clashes in Beit Ommer village north of the West Bank city of Hebron

Disengagement Trauma

Ten years on, many former Gush Katif residents are still mourning the loss of their homes.

Opponents of the disengagement from Gush Katif confront Border Policemen at the Gaza Strip settlement of Kfar Darom as the pullout was underway, August 18, 2005

The humans behind the headlines

Orit Arfa's novel 'The Settler' aims to give the reader a better sense of the picture and human faces behind the disengagement of the Gaza Strip in 2005.

A woman prays during the evacuation of Gush Katif in 2005.

Edelstein and former Likud rebels say ‘I told you so’ on Gaza disengagement

Kahlon absent from reunion to mark 10 years since Gaza withdrawal.

Likud rebels – who fought to prevent the Gaza disengagement – meet with Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein in the Knesset

Know Comment: The malice of Gaza disengagement

Wrecking Gush Katif wasn’t really about peace with the Palestinians, but crushing religious Zionism.

An Israeli opponent of Israel's disengagement plan from Gaza mourns before evacuation in the Jewish Gaza Strip settlement of Kfar Darom

Column One: The irony of the expulsions from Gaza

The settlements of Gaza were destroyed 10 years ago. Israel has been paying the physical price of the strategic lunacy of the withdrawal ever since.

OPPONENTS OF the disengagement plan from Gaza confront Border Police at the synagogue in the settlement of Kfar Darom in August 2005.

Ariel Sharon and the 10th of Shvat

The Jerusalem Post

Ariel Sharon's Bold Zionist Pragmatism Saved Israel -- Twice

The Jerusalem Post

'Gush Katif evacuees more prone to health risks'

Study: Men who were evacuated from Gush Katif settlements in 2005 have more diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure.

Gush Katif settlers are evacuated from Gaza 311 (R)