Israel Withdraws From Gaza
Witness History
BBC
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2017
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
For five years Maisoon Bashir and her family lived on the front-line of the Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip. Their house was directly opposite one of the Jewish settlements built by Israel after it captured the tiny heavily-populated territory from Egypt in the Six Day war in October 1967. Israeli troops occupied the top floors of Maisoon’s house, using it as a military look-out post, while Maisoon and her family continued living in the rooms below. They finally re-gained possession of their home when Israel withdrew from Gaza in September 2005. Maisoon tells Mike Lanchin about living with soldiers in her own home.
Photo: An Israeli armored personnel carrier deploys at sunrise to protect the evacuation of the Gaza Strip Jewish settlement of Kfar Darom (David Silverman/Getty Images).
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| 0:36.0 | Hello and welcome to the Witness Podcast from the BBC World Service with Me Mike Lanchin, history told by the people who were there. |
| 0:44.3 | Today we're going back to 2005 when Israel completed its withdrawal from the Gaza Strip |
| 0:50.3 | after nearly 40 years of occupation. |
| 0:53.0 | Around 8,000 Jewish settlers were evicted |
| 0:56.0 | and all Israeli military personnel |
| 0:58.0 | were withdrawn from the tiny Palestinian territory. |
| 1:02.0 | I've been hearing from one young |
| 1:04.0 | Garzan woman who was there when the Israelis left. |
| 1:07.0 | Israeli security forces have been forcibly removing |
| 1:11.0 | Jewish settlers from two synagogues where they've been defying a government order to evacuate the Gaza Strip. |
| 1:17.0 | They moved in to finish Israel's historic pullout. |
| 1:21.0 | Settlements built over decades have been swept aside in days. |
| 1:27.0 | There are some pretty violent scenes here with the police and army teams moving into houses and |
| 1:32.0 | trying to take out the settlers and the protesters. |
| 1:34.8 | The people in the settlement they are very upset and angry because they don't like to leave Gaza. |
| 1:40.3 | And we hear the sound of the people in the settlement shouting no we don't leave |
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