Netzarim
Coordinates: 31 ° 29 ′ N , 34 ° 25 ′ E
Netzarim ( Hebrew נצרים) was an Israeli settlement and kibbutz in the middle of the Israeli- occupied Gaza Strip from its inception until August 2005 . Due to its isolated location outside of the Jewish settlement blocks in the Gaza Strip, the place could only be reached by armored vehicles via a single road at the time.
history
1967 to 2005
After the conquest of the Gaza Strip during the Six Day War (1967) by ground forces of the Israeli army, Netzarim was founded on the evening of the Purim festival in 1972 by Nachal members of the Zionist youth organization HaSchomer HaTzair . In 1984 the place was converted into a civilian settlement and a national-religious kibbutz was created.
Netzarim was largely inhabited by Jewish settlers, who saw the settlement of Gaza as their duty and did not want to leave the area under any circumstances. By August 2005, 60 families with more than 400 people lived in the settlement. The settlement was connected to the Karni border crossing with a road. To protect the settlement, the Israeli occupation forces closed Saladin Street, which connected the south of the Gaza Strip with Gaza City. Palestinian houses on the street were demolished for this purpose.
The settlement and the nearby intersection ( English Netzarim junction ) ( 31 ° 27 '53 " N , 34 ° 25' 37.2" O ) were more frequent place of bloody collisions. For example, on September 27, 2000, an Israeli military patrol was attacked by Palestinian snipers at the intersection about two kilometers south-east of Netzarim, killing an Israeli soldier. However, an incident at the beginning of the Second Intifada attracted special worldwide attention , in which three days later, on September 30, 2000, the twelve-year-old Palestinian boy Muhammad al-Durrah in front of the camera of the Palestinian cameraman Talal Abu, who works for France 2 , at the same intersection Rahme was allegedly shot. Subsequent investigations suggest that the boy was either killed by bullets from Palestinian riflemen, or that the scene filmed by Palestinian cameraman Talal Abu Rahme of French state television France 2 was possibly staged.
On March 29, 2002, a Palestinian killed the two Israelis, Tuvia Weisner (79 years old) and Michael Orlinsky (70 years old) in a synagogue in Netzarim. They had gathered for Passover prayer when the perpetrator stabbed them with a knife and then escaped.
After an attack in 2003 in which three Israeli soldiers were killed, a discussion developed among the Israeli public about the point of keeping Netzarim going.
2005
As part of Israel's complete withdrawal from the Gaza Strip , Netzarim was evacuated on August 22, 2005 as the last Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip. After all Israeli soldiers left, the Palestinians began demolishing houses and synagogues in what were once Jewish settlements . According to AFP reports, on September 12, 2005, a bulldozer entered the Netzarim settlement to tear down the synagogue that Palestinian youths had previously set on fire.
See also
Web links
- israelnationalnews.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c The luxury of Netzarim . In: FAZ , October 26, 2003
- ^ Juliane Wetzel : Israel in the media . ( Memento of the original from September 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. digberlin.de
- ↑ James Fallows: Who Shot Mohammed al-Dura? . In: Die Weltwoche , issue 29/03 . Archived from the original on November 12, 2005 Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved July 21, 2009.
- ↑ Esther Schapira ( Memento of the original from July 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Editor of the Hessischer Rundfunk, questions the murder thesis. ARD reveals falsification in the case of Mohammed Al-Durah
- ↑ JA / hie .: Is Mohammed al-Dura alive? . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 3, 2009 edition . Retrieved March 3, 2009.
- ↑ Jürg Altwegg: France's journalists support a forgery . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 3, 2009 edition . Retrieved March 3, 2009.
- ↑ New series of murders: 4 Israelis murdered in Samaria, 2 in the Gaza Strip. In: Israelnetz .de. March 29, 2002, accessed October 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Arafat's Passover Terror: These are the names of the victims. In: Israelnetz .de. March 29, 2002, accessed October 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Article in Stern about the withdrawal of the Israeli occupation forces
