In the final part of the JNS series marking 20 years since the Gaza pullout, Einat Bloch, a teenage activist at the time of the Gaza pullout in 2005, says that leaving Gaza saved her community from an Oct. 7-style attack.
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Bryna Hilburg, a symbol of the bereaved families of Gush Katif, talks to JNS about the attacks in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the prospect of reinterring the remains of her son in Gaza.
“It should be a strip of land open to all, not something closed,” says Meir Dana-Picard, a leader of the 2005 resistance against disengagement.
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“For me, the idea is not to go back to Gush Katif, but to go back to a type of social, historical, Zionist, Jewish awareness that it’s a part of the State of Israel.”
Former Gush Katif resident Laurence Beziz: ‘We won’t say we told you so’ Read More »
In recognition of 20 years since the Gaza pullout, Orit wrote a series of articles for JNS.org, reflecting on Israel’s disengagement, speaking with an array of former Gush Katif residents to find out how they perceive the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, the Trump plan for the Gaza Strip and the prospect of returning.
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