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Gush Katif residents protesting the disengagement, April 2005
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| By israelinsider staff March 15, 2007 |
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Angry residents of two evacuated settlements in the West Bank, Homesh and Sa-Nur, sent a letter to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz demanding that they set up a meeting to discuss their desire to return to the now destroyed settlements.
The residents wrote that, regardless of Olmert's response, they will return to the land and live in tents before the Passover holiday, Ynetnews reported.
The evacuees also warned the Prime Minister that if he did not agree to their demands, they would petition the High Court.
Four families signed the letter, which had the heading "amending mistakes."
It read, "We were expelled from our homes together with 8,000 other civilians driven out of Gush Katif as part of what was dubbed The Disengagement Plan.
"The plan, which violated our constitutional rights, was approved by the High Court based on the premise that this was being done for a better good," it continued.
"The court was told that the security would improve as a result of the move. The sad reality is now blowing up in our faces; it would appear that the government's claims have no link to reality. Legally, there is no doubt that the factual basis for the court's decision was mistaken," the evacuees wrote.
The authors of the letter believe that the deteriorating security situation is reason enough to justify a return to the settlements and they demand that they be reestablished in the face of this mistake.
Homesh and Sa-Nur are two of the four settlements that were evacuated in the West Bank during the disengagement in 2005. |
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