The name of the police program: "Shevet Achim," from the verse in Psalms, "How pleasant it is for brothers to sit together."
Maariv newspaper reports today that the plan stipulates that Netzarim, a relatively isolated community in central Gaza, is to be removed first.
The 21 Jewish communities in Gaza comprise three in the north, 16 in the southern Gush Katif bloc, Kfar Darom just north of Gush Katif, and Netzarim another ten kilometers further north. Twenty years old, Netzarim is populated by some 65 ideologically strong families.
The police plan for the expulsion of residents from communities such as Netzarim is based on three groups of forces. Equipped with aerial photos of the town, the first group will be in charge of removing people standing outside, while the second force will be responsible for those inside their homes. The third force will deal with those who close themselves up and physically and violently resist – possibly even with shooting and/or incendiary devices, the police say they fear.
The newspaper further reports that three weeks before the expulsion, the police and army will begin intensive joint training exercises. The forces will be backed up and protected by a division of reserves soldiers that will be called up for this purpose.
The expulsion plan is currently scheduled for July, though the Cabinet and Knesset have not yet approved its implementation.
Arutz-7's Haggai Huberman reported on Friday that the army has been ordered to "relax" its operations against the incessant shells and rockets bombarding Gush Katif, in order to "save" its reserves call-up quotas for the disengagement.
After the residents are removed from their homes, the Evacuation Administration headed by Yonatan Bassi will be responsible for packing and marking the deportees' property. The same body will also transfer the newly homeless citizens to hotels or mobile-home parks prepared in advance, and will prepare food and emotional support.
The police are waiting for a budgetary allocation of 380 million shekels, which is to cover, among other things, the new uniforms that were specially designed for the evacuation mission.
Certain issues have not yet been resolved, such as the cemeteries that are to be left behind and the exhumation of the corpses, and the collection of the 2,000 weapons in the possession of the Gush Katif residents.
Chief among the administrative concerns, however, is the fact that the residents are not cooperating with those who wish to expel them in an organized and efficient manner. Yonatan Bassi, head of the Evacuation Authority, held a press conference today during which he essentially called on residents to come forward and make their post-transfer preferences known. He said that the entire community of Pe'at Sadeh – 22 families in southern Gush Katif – plus another five families, will move as one group to Moshav Mavkiim near Ashkelon. Aside from that, his basic message was, "Time is running out, and that which we can offer now we won't be able to do 3-4 months from now."
Pe'at Sadeh is a mixed secular-religious-traditional community, with children comprising nearly 70% of its population. One woman who moved to Pe'at Sadeh with her husband 17 years ago - the family now has four children - told Arutz-7, "We continue to fight and oppose this terrible disengagement plan. But we have asked to move as a group as a form of life insurance; we want to stay together, if the worst happens, and don't want to be fragmented."
Maariv newspaper reports today that the plan stipulates that Netzarim, a relatively isolated community in central Gaza, is to be removed first.
The 21 Jewish communities in Gaza comprise three in the north, 16 in the southern Gush Katif bloc, Kfar Darom just north of Gush Katif, and Netzarim another ten kilometers further north. Twenty years old, Netzarim is populated by some 65 ideologically strong families.
The police plan for the expulsion of residents from communities such as Netzarim is based on three groups of forces. Equipped with aerial photos of the town, the first group will be in charge of removing people standing outside, while the second force will be responsible for those inside their homes. The third force will deal with those who close themselves up and physically and violently resist – possibly even with shooting and/or incendiary devices, the police say they fear.
The newspaper further reports that three weeks before the expulsion, the police and army will begin intensive joint training exercises. The forces will be backed up and protected by a division of reserves soldiers that will be called up for this purpose.
The expulsion plan is currently scheduled for July, though the Cabinet and Knesset have not yet approved its implementation.
Arutz-7's Haggai Huberman reported on Friday that the army has been ordered to "relax" its operations against the incessant shells and rockets bombarding Gush Katif, in order to "save" its reserves call-up quotas for the disengagement.
After the residents are removed from their homes, the Evacuation Administration headed by Yonatan Bassi will be responsible for packing and marking the deportees' property. The same body will also transfer the newly homeless citizens to hotels or mobile-home parks prepared in advance, and will prepare food and emotional support.
The police are waiting for a budgetary allocation of 380 million shekels, which is to cover, among other things, the new uniforms that were specially designed for the evacuation mission.
Certain issues have not yet been resolved, such as the cemeteries that are to be left behind and the exhumation of the corpses, and the collection of the 2,000 weapons in the possession of the Gush Katif residents.
Chief among the administrative concerns, however, is the fact that the residents are not cooperating with those who wish to expel them in an organized and efficient manner. Yonatan Bassi, head of the Evacuation Authority, held a press conference today during which he essentially called on residents to come forward and make their post-transfer preferences known. He said that the entire community of Pe'at Sadeh – 22 families in southern Gush Katif – plus another five families, will move as one group to Moshav Mavkiim near Ashkelon. Aside from that, his basic message was, "Time is running out, and that which we can offer now we won't be able to do 3-4 months from now."
Pe'at Sadeh is a mixed secular-religious-traditional community, with children comprising nearly 70% of its population. One woman who moved to Pe'at Sadeh with her husband 17 years ago - the family now has four children - told Arutz-7, "We continue to fight and oppose this terrible disengagement plan. But we have asked to move as a group as a form of life insurance; we want to stay together, if the worst happens, and don't want to be fragmented."