OFAKIM, Israel – Settler leaders instructed their followers to try to infiltrate the main settlement bloc in the Gaza Strip yesterday in a bid to disrupt Israel’s pullout from the territory, due to begin in two weeks.
After a mass protest in the border town of Sderot on Tuesday night, right-wing opponents of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s disengagement plan were due to hold another round of protests in nearby Ofakim. Thousands of those who took part in the Sderot protest spent the night camped out in Ofakim ahead of the next round of demonstrations intended to force Sharon into a last-minute rethink of his plan to uproot settlers from occupied Palestinian land since the start of the occupation in 1967.- Nampa-AFPThousands of those who took part in the Sderot protest spent the night camped out in Ofakim ahead of the next round of demonstrations intended to force Sharon into a last-minute rethink of his plan to uproot settlers from occupied Palestinian land since the start of the occupation in 1967.- Nampa-AFP
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