Yehonatan Basi, head of the Disengagement Evacuation Authority, toured the four northern Shomron communities slated for destruction yesterday - or tried to. In one of them, Sa-Nur, the residents didn't even allow him to enter.
In Homesh, Ganim, and Kadim, he and Justice Ministry Director-General Aharon Abramovitch did enter - but did not have very successful meetings. Basi is responsible for compensation and relocation of the some 8,500 residents the government hopes to evict from their homes in northern Shomron and Gush Katif.
The representatives of Homesh told their visitors that they are thinking not of leaving and destruction, but of how to absorb more families. "Those who are interested in receiving compensation and the like," one of them told Arutz-7 today, "are those who have left already. But the rest of us are planning on staying." He said that 34 families remain in Homesh, a not-religious community, and that nine religious families have recently moved in. "We are happy to have them," he said.
In Homesh, Ganim, and Kadim, he and Justice Ministry Director-General Aharon Abramovitch did enter - but did not have very successful meetings. Basi is responsible for compensation and relocation of the some 8,500 residents the government hopes to evict from their homes in northern Shomron and Gush Katif.
The representatives of Homesh told their visitors that they are thinking not of leaving and destruction, but of how to absorb more families. "Those who are interested in receiving compensation and the like," one of them told Arutz-7 today, "are those who have left already. But the rest of us are planning on staying." He said that 34 families remain in Homesh, a not-religious community, and that nine religious families have recently moved in. "We are happy to have them," he said.