Will they evacuate voluntarily? Settlers protesting disengagement
צילום: גיל יוחנן
Settlers may evacuate homes willingly
Official says no settlements would be transferred to territories; Knesset condemns threats against ministers
JERUSALEM - Office of Disengagement Head Yonatan Bassi said he hopes the majority of Jewish settlers in Gaza would willingly evacuate their homes by June.
Bassi, who spoke at a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee meeting Monday, said Jewish settlements in Gaza would not be transferred to areas beyond the Green Line, but only to the Galilee or Negev Desert.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who also took part in the meeting, said the disengagement would be carried out as scheduled and that “there will be no referendum and Jerusalem will remain unified."
'We will put the curse of death on you'
The meeting began with a strong condemnation of the recent violence against government ministers who support the disengagement, but more threatening anti-Sharon graffiti was discovered in Tel Aviv.
“We will eliminate Sharon. We will kill for our country,” the graffiti read.
Tel Aviv police units are searching for the perpetrators.
Following threatening letters sent to ministers Meir Sheetrit and Binyamin Ben Eliezer, it was revealed Monday that Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz had received a threatening letter as well.
“You are a criminal, and your family will pay for what you are doing,” the letter read. “We will put a Pulsa Dinura (curse of death) on you.”
Pulsa Dinura is a Kabbalistic curse of death that was placed by religious extremists on former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin just days before his assassination.
Disengagement opposers have physically attacked ministers Limor Livnat and Benjamin Netanyahu recently.
