(IsraelNN.com) An estimated 3,000 Gush Katif expellees and their supporters gathered at the Kisufim crossing into Gaza to mourn the destruction of their 22 Jewish towns and prepare for the day when Jews will return. Despite the fact that three years have passed since the Disengagement program, the vast majority of former Jewish Gaza residents remain in temporary housing, instead of the new homes they were promised.

The Israeli citizens from Gush Katif were forcefully removed from their homes as part of the 2005 Disengagement program which the Sharon-Olmert government said would increase Israel's security.

While there have been many setbacks from the initial fall of Gush Katif to the continued refugee status of the expellees, the former residents of Jewish Gaza have not lost hope that they will return to the land they love.

"We feel complete determination that we will be back in Gush Katif," Danny Dayan, Chairman of the Jewish Towns in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, said in the above video. "On the one hand we feel anger. We feel frustration that we are so close to Gush Katif, and we cannot visit the land which belongs to us." However, he added: "It depends on us. It depends on our spiritual strength. It depends on our determination, and I believe that Gush Katif ultimately will be built again and will be even larger and stronger than the in the past."