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Israel Begins Forcible Evacuation

Troops, bulldozers move into settlements

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• Aug. 17: Israeli soldiers carry a young Jewish settler at the settlement of Shirat Hayam in Gaza.
• Aug. 17: An Israeli commander comforts a soldiers who began to cry after assisting in the eviction of a settler family.
• Aug. 17: Trying to shame Israeli troops, a settler holds up her baby in front of soldiers waiting to evict the settlers.
• Aug. 17: An Israeli settler shouts at Israeli soldiers as he is taken away from a synagogue in the southern Gaza Strip.
• Aug. 17: An Israeli soldier carries a crying boy from his home towards a bus as his family is evicted a settlement.
• Aug. 17: Jewish settlers shout and point through an open window of a house in Gaza.
• Aug. 17: Islamic Jihad militants display their weapons during a rally at sea to celebrate the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
• Aug. 17: A tractor demolishes part of a empty settler's home in the Jewish settlement of Nissanit, Gaza Strip.
• Aug. 16: A gunman linked to the Fatah movement holds a homemade rocket in Khan Younis in central Gaza.
• Aug. 16: A group of Jewish settlers attend a farewell ceremony in the Jewish settlement of Nissanit in northern Gaza.