Disengagement

Chikli turns down apology to Gaza border communities for Oct. 7, blames Oslo accords

"The oversight happened on the government's watch, and I think (asking me to say) sorry is like blaming us, right? Like we did it intentionally, and I don't believe in that," Chikli stated.

Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli attends a conference against antisemitism in Jerusalem, January 26, 2026.
Jews return to the former settlement of Ganim in the northern West Bank, which was evacuated in 2005 as part of Israel’s Disengagement Plan, August 13, 2026.

MKs attend reestablishment of West Bank settlement of Ganim, 21 years after disengagement

GUSH KATIF’S pioneers made the desert bloom: Entrance to Neveh Dekalim, seen July 2005.

Why Israel must reverse the 2005 Gaza withdrawal, resettle Gush Katif - opinion

The Jerusalem Dispatch

The Jerusalem Dispatch: 20 years since disengagement


On this day in 2005: Israel completes disengagement from the Gaza Strip

The disengagement plan evicted over 9,000 Israeli citizens from their homes in Gaza and northern Samaria.

 Tree is decorated with orange ribbons in front of destroyed Jewish settler houses in former Jewish settlement of Gadid in Gaza Strip, August, 2005.

Knesset to mark date of disengagement from Gaza, northern Samaria

The Land of Israel Caucus requested that the date of the Gaza disengagement be marked, in a letter to the Knesset Speaker signed by 58 MKs from parties in the coalition and opposition.

A letter sent to the Knesset Speaker by the Land of Israel Caucus asking that the Knesset mark the date of the disengagement from Gaza and northern Samaria.

Activists end one-day Sa-Nur standoff, call for settlement to be rebuilt

"It is clear that there is no person left in the State of Israel who believes that this displacement was correct."

Settlers resettle Sa-Nur overnight, Nov. 17, 2020

What if it was called disengagement and not annexation? – opinion

What would happen if Netanyahu had introduced his plan as a unilateral disengagement rather than applying sovereignty/annexation?

Palestinian demonstrators pray as an IDF soldier stands guard during a protest against Israel’s planned annexation, near Hebron, on July 17.

Gaza Disengagement and the expulsion’s impact on religious-Zionism

The religious trauma was felt by many in the religious-Zionist camp who, though not residents of the uprooted settlements, also shared the divine drama ideal.

MOURNING, KFAR DAROM, August 18, 2005

Gaza's settlers 15 years on: 'One day we will have to return'

A ‘Jerusalem Post’ reporter, on the frontlines in Gush Katif, recounts the surreal time of disconnect between settlers’ lost dreams and the encroaching destructive reality.

SETTLERS DANCE and sing in front of IDF troops outside the Neveh Dekalim synagogue on August 18, 2005

Gaza Disengagement: Reporting from the trenches

‘The Jerusalem Post’s then-defense correspondent opens up his reporter’s notebook on the disengagement, 15 years on.

OPPONENTS OF the disengagement plan from Gaza confront Border Police at the synagogue in the settlement of Kfar Darom in August 2005.

Gaza Disengagement: Memories and lessons 15 years on

‘The Jerusalem Post’s editor-in-chief remembers his experiences as a reporter for the paper during this tumultuous time.

AN IDF soldier evicts residents from their Neveh Dekalim home on August 18, 2005

The reason for Disengagement: Sharon wished to avoid jail

The answer is that it had nothing to do with peace or war.

PRIME MINISTER Ariel Sharon in 2006.

Knesset bill filed to repeal 2005 Disengagement Law

The bill would allow settlers to rebuild the four demolished Samaria settlements of Sa-Nur, Homesh, Gaddim and Kadim.

Settlers at a protest rally on the ruins of the Sa-Nur settlement in Samaria.