JERUSALEM (AP) — It took five years, but on Monday, five families who lost their homes when Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005 moved into their new houses — not far from their old ones.
Israel evacuated 21 settlements in Gaza as part of its unilateral pullout. Most of the 8,500 Gaza settlers refused to cooperate with the government's resettlement plans, and many are still living in temporary housing.
The town of Halutza in Israel's southern Negev desert, just four miles (seven kilometers) from the Gaza border, is the first independent community built for the former Gaza settlers. In the first stages, 200 families are beginning to move in, but plans are to expand the …
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