Following weeks of paid advertisements explaining that the government is offering solutions for every resident due to be expelled, the Disengagement Authority has changed its strategy.
The government is now reportedly considering suing Jewish residents of Gaza who do not leave voluntarily, according to the government attorney's statement, filed in response to a Supreme Court petition questioning compensation payments.
Disengagement Authority head Yonatan Bassi, who has promised to be "sensitive" to Jewish residents being forced out of their homes, has been increasingly angry at them for what he has termed lack of cooperation with his office.
Bassi warned that the government will not take any responsibility for possessions left behind by residents whom the government plans to expel from their homes by force. He added that Gaza will be closed to incoming traffic next Friday, and moving trucks and other vehicles will not be permitted to enter. Bassi has also limited the number of trucks and containers which each family will be allotted.
National Religious Party (NRP) MK Yahalom charged Bassi with using "economic terrorism." He reminded Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz of his promise to a Knesset committee several weeks ago that his office would take responsibility for possessions left behind.
Government prosecuting attorneys told Supreme Court justices that the government may sue Jews in Gaza for damages if the army and police have to forcibly remove them from their houses. The government was responding to a petition challenging the Disengagement Authority's decision to reduce payments to residents who do not leave voluntarily.
The Supreme Court ruled two months ago that the original conditions of compensation violated the residents' "dignity as human beings," a basic right under Israeli law. One former justice noted that it was significant that the court determined that the Israeli law includes Jewish residents of Gaza.
Bassi has ruled that families who do not leave voluntarily will lose about 135,000 shekels ($30,000). Government attorneys told the High Court that expelled residents may face a countersuit in damages claimed by the government for the costs of removing them forcibly.
Lawyers in behalf of the expulsion victims said that Bassi has misled expulsion victims by saying they will lose. The residents are indeed able to sue for the compensation, they explained, although government attorneys said that suits would make a countersuit more probable.
Another petition, brought by the Jurists' Forum for the Land of Israel, appealed to the court order that the IDF may deploy soldiers against demonstrators.
The government is now reportedly considering suing Jewish residents of Gaza who do not leave voluntarily, according to the government attorney's statement, filed in response to a Supreme Court petition questioning compensation payments.
Disengagement Authority head Yonatan Bassi, who has promised to be "sensitive" to Jewish residents being forced out of their homes, has been increasingly angry at them for what he has termed lack of cooperation with his office.
Bassi warned that the government will not take any responsibility for possessions left behind by residents whom the government plans to expel from their homes by force. He added that Gaza will be closed to incoming traffic next Friday, and moving trucks and other vehicles will not be permitted to enter. Bassi has also limited the number of trucks and containers which each family will be allotted.
National Religious Party (NRP) MK Yahalom charged Bassi with using "economic terrorism." He reminded Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz of his promise to a Knesset committee several weeks ago that his office would take responsibility for possessions left behind.
Government prosecuting attorneys told Supreme Court justices that the government may sue Jews in Gaza for damages if the army and police have to forcibly remove them from their houses. The government was responding to a petition challenging the Disengagement Authority's decision to reduce payments to residents who do not leave voluntarily.
The Supreme Court ruled two months ago that the original conditions of compensation violated the residents' "dignity as human beings," a basic right under Israeli law. One former justice noted that it was significant that the court determined that the Israeli law includes Jewish residents of Gaza.
Bassi has ruled that families who do not leave voluntarily will lose about 135,000 shekels ($30,000). Government attorneys told the High Court that expelled residents may face a countersuit in damages claimed by the government for the costs of removing them forcibly.
Lawyers in behalf of the expulsion victims said that Bassi has misled expulsion victims by saying they will lose. The residents are indeed able to sue for the compensation, they explained, although government attorneys said that suits would make a countersuit more probable.
Another petition, brought by the Jurists' Forum for the Land of Israel, appealed to the court order that the IDF may deploy soldiers against demonstrators.