Anita Tucker, one of almost 10,000 Jews uprooted from Gaza and Northern Samaria by the Israeli government during the Disengagement 2005, says that the "the people that are signed on the contract to have responsibility have not accepted the responsibility" for dealing with the problems of the evictees.
Tucker told Israel National Radio's Eve Harow that she was told "It's not my problem," when she called agencies such as the Zionist Federation and the Sela Disengagement authority about a water leak in the trailer home on a temporary site where she was placed near kibbutz Ein Tzurim. Workers she paid to fix the problem discovered substandard infrastructure that was unhealthy and dangerous! She also discovered she was not alone.
Tucker said there's a 20-million-shekel budget shortfall preventing completion of infrastructure for the permanent community where she is supposed to move. Approval of another community that was planned with the ecology in mind faces an appeal by environmentalists.
Tucker, a grandmother who was famous for raising celery in the Gaza Jewish community of Netzer Hazani, says that Gaza Arabs, such as those who worked for her, are worse off too. She hears, "It's a cycle that you can't see that anyone came out… good from this. No one came out good from this."
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