Chairman of the Judea, Samaria and Gaza (YESHA) Council, Dani Dayan, called the demand voiced by some far-left Knesset members to evict former residents of Gush Katif from their new homes "evil for evil's sake."

Defense Minister Ehud Barak issued orders allowing five Jewish families from the demolished town of Morag to live in prefab homes in the town of Teneh-Omarim, near Hevron. The governmental permits, issued nearly three years after the families were taken from their Gaza homes, were harshly criticized by the left-wing Meretz party on Monday.

Reacting to MK Vilan's demand that the government reverse itself again, and thus expel the families from the new homes, Dayan said, "How much evil can one put up with? MK Vilan's demand to again expel families that were already expelled from their homes once is not a legitimate political position, it is rather hardheartedness and evilness for their own sake."