Gush Katif

Smotrich says plans for northern Gaza settlements await Netanyahu's approval

The finance minister’s statements calling for West Bank and Gaza annexation often draw sharp international condemnation, as well as criticism for harming Israel’s global standing.

FINANCE MINISTER Bezalel Smotrich holds a press conference ahead of the vote on the state budget at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, March 29, 2026.
A memorial ceremony at the Nova festival marking two years since the October 7 massacre when Hamas terrorists infiltrated southern Israel, murdering more than 1200 people. October 07, 2025.

Israel gave up Gush Katif and got Oct. 7. Why does Trump think Iran will be different? - opinion

Avichai Ayubi.

‘I never knew my father’: Avichai Ayubi on loss, Israel’s orphaned generation, and moving forward

An Israeli flag flutters, with Ma'aleh Adumim is visible in the background, in the West Bank, August 14, 2025.

Israel grants legal status to 19 West Bank settlements, including two vacated in 2005 disengagement


Former IDF chief rabbi Rafi Peretz elected to lead Bayit Yehudi

Peretz is married and the father of 12 children. He lived in Gush Katif in Gaza before the disengagement, and currently lives in Neveh, in the Negev, with other Gaza evacuees.

Rafi Peretz

Report: Shin Bet eavesdropped on minor and mother in Jewish terror case

A report claims Israel's secret service has an underage student under surveillance.

Police raid the Pri Haaretz Yeshiva in Rechalim

PM says Gush Katif evacuees akin to Palestinian refugees

“This is a very welcome and important change, and we support it,” Netanyahu said of the American decision regarding UNRWA.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a school in Yad Binyamin

Sweet fruit from the West Bank sent to Israel lovers worldwide

Loss of land and losing a son in a war did not deter Yehoshua Meshulami from growing dates that reach people across the globe.

Yehoshua Meshulami and one of his children working on the dates orchard

Don't destroy the Netiv Avot homes

A deadline looms, residents of the neighborhood, along with the community of Elazar as a whole, have been holding a series of demonstrations calling on the state to intervene and somehow influence.

Bulldozers and earthmoving equipment demolish homes in the former Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim, in the Gaza Strip August 31, 2005.

MK Shaffir: Why are 400 Gaza evacuee families still homeless 10 years on?

A government representative admits "the government decided to evacuate, but did not decide how to rehabilitate" and most of the planning was for the short term.

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

Terror: Sometimes it is just easier to be numb

The Jerusalem Post

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

This Week in Israeli History: Last Residents of Gush Katif Evicted, Guy Hever MIA and Emmanuel Moreno

The Jerusalem Post

Former chief of staff: Ariel Sharon designed Gaza disengagement to save West Bank settlements

Former US President George W. Bush promised Sharon that the settlement blocs would be included within Israel’s final borders after revealing the Gaza disengagement plan, says Dov Weisglass.

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