Israel’s Gaza ‘disengagement’ that paved the way for conquest | Israel-Palestine conflict
In August 2005, the Israeli government officially withdrew from the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian coastal enclave it had occupied continuously since 1967. Apart from pulling back its armed forces, it had to undertake the dismantlement of 21 illegal settlements housing 8,000 Jewish settlers. Israeli troops were deployed to begin the process, which pulled at the…
