Clashes in Gaza Feed Doubt About Pullout

[Rhiannon12866]

Homes Razed After Attack on Israeli Tank
By John Ward Anderson and Molly Moore
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, March 20, 2004; Page A19

MUGHRAKA, Gaza Strip, March 19 -- Israeli tanks and bulldozers demolished three houses belonging to Refaat Abu Kmail and his family in this small village on Friday, a few hours after Palestinian guerrillas blew up an Israeli tank about 100 yards away, injuring two soldiers.

Standing amid the broken concrete, shattered mirrors and splintered furniture, the collapsed satellite dish, severed doll's head and crushed Legos, Kmail, 27, considered Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's proposal to withdraw Israeli troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip. "It's all lies, all words," he said. "He will never withdraw."

Just over a sandy hillock, the Israeli military is leveling ground for the construction of a new security fence around the south side of Netzarim, a Jewish settlement with 400 residents about three miles south of Gaza City. Olga Ashhab, 30, whose in-laws live in a concrete house about 50 yards from the proposed fence line, said bulldozers were already working in the back yard, and the family expects the home to be razed.

"Why would the Israeli government put so much money into a project if they are going to leave Gaza?" she asked.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9362-2004Mar19.html

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1. all talk, nothing more ....(the Pullout)

Doubt About Pullout (from Gaza)

[Rhiannon12866]

2. After today's actions, I fear that you are right

A year ago I posted a thread entitled "Friends of Israel Should See Gaza," depicting the horrible conditions there. Little did we know then how much worse it could and would get in this terrible place.