Gush Katif

Israel 'will return to the whole of Gaza,' should 'erase' Oslo Accords, Smotrich says

“Gush Katif is small,” Smotrich told Pulse of Israel podcast host Avi Abelow. “We will return to the whole of Gaza in a big way.”

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich attends a press conference at the Finance Ministry in Jerusalem, July 1, 2026.
FINANCE MINISTER Bezalel Smotrich holds a press conference ahead of the vote on the state budget at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, March 29, 2026.

Smotrich says plans for northern Gaza settlements await Netanyahu's approval

A memorial ceremony at the Nova festival marking two years since the October 7 massacre when Hamas terrorists infiltrated southern Israel, murdering more than 1200 people. October 07, 2025.

Israel gave up Gush Katif and got Oct. 7. Why does Trump think Iran will be different? - opinion

Avichai Ayubi.

‘I never knew my father’: Avichai Ayubi on loss, Israel’s orphaned generation, and moving forward


Israel grants legal status to 19 West Bank settlements, including two vacated in 2005 disengagement

The move follows government approval on Wednesday for the construction of 764 housing units across three settlements in the West Bank.

An Israeli flag flutters, with Ma'aleh Adumim is visible in the background, in the West Bank, August 14, 2025.

This week in Jewish history: The 2005 Gaza Disengagement

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.

 OPPONENTS OF Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s disengagement plan face IDF troops as they secure the fence of Kfar Maimon in July 2005 after police blocked them from marching to the Gush Katif communities to protest against their demolition.

The Jerusalem Dispatch: 20 years since disengagement

Calev Ben David and Elliot Jager break down crucial news stories.

The Jerusalem Dispatch

The Gaza Disengagement: Sharon's strategic mistake and its cost – opinion

Ariel Sharon’s 2005 withdrawal from Gaza created an opportunity for Hamas to rise, leading to devastating consequences for both Israelis and Palestinians.

THEN-PRIME MINISTER Ariel Sharon addresses the cabinet at a meeting in 2004, ahead of a vote on approving a Gaza pullout. Let’s not forget a key cause of our ongoing disaster – Sharon’s 2005 ‘disengagement’ from Gaza, the writer charges.

Not the military experience I intended: Gaza, 2005 and 2025 - opinion

'On the 10th anniversary of the evacuation, TV channels looked back on the disengagement and broadcast the clip of that haunting scene. I was shocked to hear my own voice.'

THE GUSH KATIF settlement where we spent most of our time was Morag – seen July 12, 2005.

Gaza Disengagement, revisited: Sharon’s gamble, Israel’s price

Disengagement was sold not just as a diplomatic move, but as a security one. Pulling out of Gaza, Ariel Sharon argued, would save lives.

Former prime minister Ariel Sharon is seen in an archive image taken during the 1980s

Twenty years after Gaza withdrawal, threat of terror remains - opinion

The Palestinians had a chance to build a viable and flourishing presence in Gaza; instead, they opted for terrorism and hate.

Palestinians take control of an Israeli tank after crossing the border fence with Israel from Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 7, 2023.

The youth of Gush Katif: The trauma, struggles of the once-teens of Israel's Gaza settlements

How a few teens dealt with the trauma of the expulsion, and where are they today?

AN IDF soldier uproots residents from their Neveh Dekalim home, Aug. 2005.

Gaza Disengagement twenty years later: A summer of changes and turbulence

Who knew then that 20 years later, Iran would be sending massive rockets, and Houthis would be blowing up ships?

MEDIA CIRCUS on the IDF’s final day, at general headquarters in Khan Yunis, Sept. 11, 2005.

It began in Neveh Dekalim: How the Gaza Disengagement led to judicial reform

For Religious Zionists, who link Torah, people, and land, the state’s bulldozers felt like a theological betrayal.

A GIRL is evacuated from Neveh Dekalim, Aug. 2005.