Name: Withdrawal From Gaza
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2007
Duration: 1 min 30 s

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Documentary

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2007

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1h 30m

Synopsis

On August 15th, 2005, the Israeli government began the evacuation of 8500 people, 1800 families, from 21 Jewish settlements (known collectively as Gush Katif) in the Gaza Strip, and four settlements in Northern Samaria. The Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip was an event of major significance to Jews around the world, but was also of such import to the rest of the world that 4000 journalists applied for press credentials to cover it. In one of the harshest tests ever faced by any modern Democracy, young Jewish soldiers and police were faced with the extraordinary task of having to remove fellow Israeli citizens from their homes and synagogues and schools, forcing them to dismantle their farms and industries, uproot their graveyards, in the hope that this unilateral act of giving would serve the Israeli national interest. The arguments for and against the withdrawal split Israeli society and made it one of the most painful events in the history of the State of Israel.