Salon.com News | Army bars Israelis from West Bank areas: "March 19, 2005  |  JERUSALEM -- The army is barring Israeli citizens from moving to four West Bank settlements slated for evacuation later this year, military officials said Saturday, following a similar ban on relocating to the Gaza Strip.

The move is the army's latest step to counter settler resistance to the government's plan to withdraw from Gaza and four isolated settlements in the northern West Bank. The plan, scheduled to begin in late July, would uproot roughly 9,000 Jewish settlers from their homes."

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"Sharon has said there is no future for the Jewish residents of Gaza, where 8,200 settlers live in tightly guarded enclaves amid 1.3 million Palestinians."

(Via Salon.)