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Israeli forces storm Gaza Synagogues
(China Daily/Agencies)
Updated: 2005-08-19 05:47
Israeli troops stormed a Gaza Strip synagogue and
dragged out screaming Jewish settlers and their supporters yesterday as Israel's
pullout from the occupied territory shifted into high gear.
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father and his son are carried away by Israeli policemen during the
evacuation yesterday of the Jewish Gaza Strip settlement of Kfar
Darom.[AFP] | Hundreds of unarmed soldiers and
police swept into the main Jewish house of worship in the largest Gaza
settlement, Neve Dekalim, to end a two-day standoff with hundreds of
ultranationalist youths who had defied orders to leave.
Protesters linked arms and chanted "Jews don't expel Jews" as groups of
soldiers pulled them out one by one and carried them to waiting buses. One youth
wrapped in an Israeli flag writhed and sobbed as he was taken away.
It was part of an effort by Israeli forces to break down the last bastions of
resistance to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to end 38 years of occupation
of the coastal territory.
On the second day of forced evacuation, confrontation also loomed in the
hard-line settlement of Kfar Darom, where soldiers encircled hundreds of young
radicals holed up behind razor wire in a synagogue, many standing on the rooftop
singing.
As negotiators tried to reach a peaceful end to the standoff, troops knocked
on doors nearby and ordered people out. Shouting and sobbing, some had to be
dragged out, repeating scenes from other Gaza settlements the day before.
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