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A home in Homesh on Tuesday.
Homesh synagogue on Monday. Barbed wire and sandbags lie waiting to be used to fortify the structure.
The fortified synagogue on Tuesday.
Homesh road blocked to IDF vehicles.
"WHY?" "Soldier - You Were Drafted For This?"
Homesh resident speaks with soldier, asking him why he won't refuse orders.
Homesh residents, wearing orange stars, beg a soldier not to go through with dragging their families from their homes.
Soldiers wearing special Disengagement uniforms guard home while officers try to convince inhabitants to leave willingly.
Search and Rescue soldiers from the Homefront Command, usually sent on rescue missions after disasters, prepare to break into a home in Homesh.
Rescue team from Homefront Command breaks into the Gal family's home.
Many youth gather inside homes, awaiting the arrival of expulsion forces.
Soldiers arrive and try to convince activists and residents to leave willingly.
Sign outside home being broken into by expulsion forces reads: "We will not forget and we will not forgive! G-d is the King!"
A Homesh resident being dragged out of his home.
An Egged bus brought in by the IDF to transport residents and anti-expulsion activists from Homesh.
Homesh resident being forced onto bus.
Elderly man refuses to get up from his chair and leave Homesh willingly.
Elderly man is picked up and moved while sitting in his chair.
Police move in to remove residents and protesters.
Hundreds of anti-expulsion activists, portrayed as militants by state-run media, confront expulsion forces with defiant dancing.
Anti-expulsion activists, praying in Homesh as expulsion continues.
"The Expulsion Corrupts!"
A Homesh family sits in front of their home. A sign on the house reads, "We will yet return!"
Rabbi David Dudkevitch, the Yitzhar rabbi considered a leader of many of those living on hilltops in Judea and Samaria, speaks with an IDF officer, explaining the obligation to refuse expulsion orders.
IDF bulldozer moves in to remove barbed wire and boost expulsion forces onto the roof of Homesh's synagogue.
One of the hundreds of activists who walked through fields, valleys and Arab villages at night in order to reach and defend the threatened communities.
Father with children in front of sign reading: "1492-Expulsion from Spain, 1944-Germans expelled my grandmother, 2005-IDF expels Jews from Homesh."
"Here lived the Oknin family, 1984-2005"


(Photos: Amatzia HaEitan, Alex Traiman, Yishai Fleisher and Ezra HaLevi)