Everyone does not receive the same amount of money for surrendering their homes, property and businesses. Some will receive nothing. It depends on the value of your real estate, how long you have lived in your home and if you left without resistance. This is not an overnight process where the check is in the mail. It may take months or even years. And the government decides the monetary value of your home or business. And those who resist are well aware of the financial consequences. Thousands of people are losing their homes, businesses, jobs, synagogues, schools, child care, livestock, etc. Even the dead are being evicted.
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U.S. Plans Post-Pullout Israel Assessment
The Bush administration is planning to send assessment teams to Israel to help decide how much new U.S. economic aid might be provided to help develop the Galilee and Negev regions.
Already the biggest recipient of U.S. aid at $2.3 billion a year, Israel is believed to be asking for another $2.2 billion to develop the areas where many of the 8,500 Jewish settlers leaving Gaza will be relocated.
So far, the administration has made no commitment, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Monday. "At this point what we are doing is we are sending some teams to Israel to assess what might be possible," he said.
The pullout from Gaza began Monday.
The removal of all Jewish settlers is being financed entirely by Israel at an estimated cost of $2 billion to $2.5 billion.
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Once the last settler is gone, movers will pack any remaining property before Israeli contractors and Israeli Arab workers partially demolish some 2,000 residential buildings. Israel will pay $25 million to the World Bank, which will hire Palestinian and Egyptian companies to finish the job.
Some building materials will be recycled for use in high-rises here in Gaza. Last week, special envoy James Wolfensohn clinched a deal to have the U.S. Agency for International Development spend $15 million to buy 875 acres of settler-owned greenhouses to be turned over to the Palestinian Authority. The hothouses are expected to provide jobs for at least 3,000 Palestinians.
Schools, community centers and other public buildings are supposed to be left intact for the Palestinians, although there's no guarantee individual settlers won't damage them. Gaza's 38 synagogues will be blown up after their sacred objects are removed.
On Sunday, some 1,000 people gathered at Gaza's small Jewish cemetery for an emotional memorial service as relatives clung to stones atop some of the 48 graves that will be evacuated.
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7. Real Estate Assets
In general, residential dwellings and sensitive structures, including synagogues, will not remain. The State of Israel will aspire to transfer other facilities, including industrial, commercial and agricultural ones, to a third, international party which will put them to use for the benefit of the Palestinian population that is not involved in terror.
The area of the Erez industrial zone will be transferred to the responsibility of an agreed upon Palestinian or international party.
The State of Israel will explore, together with Egypt, the possibility of establishing a joint industrial zone on the border of the Gaza Strip, Egypt and Israel.
8. Civil Infrastructure and Arrangements
Infrastructure relating to water, electricity, sewage and telecommunications will remain in place.
In general, Israel will continue, for full price, to supply electricity, water, gas and petrol to the Palestinians, in accordance with current arrangements.
Other existing arrangements, such as those relating to water and the electro-magnetic sphere shall remain in force.
Principles for Compensation
14. a. The date which determines the right for compensation is the date of the adoption of this Government Resolution.
b. Those entitled to compensation will receive fair and suitable compensation, as will be set out in the law legislated for this purpose.
Israeli officials say 66 percent of the Israeli families in Gaza have accepted state compensation deals but not all have left.
Those who refuse to go could lose a third of the money, which ranges from $150,000 to $400,000 per family.
Discussion held on evacuation of graves from Gush Katif
The main issue under discussion was the evacuation of graves from Gush Katif. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had requested that the Chief Rabbis, who are leading halakhic authorities, discuss this sensitive issue
Disengagement Authority sets rules for transfer of agricultural lands to Gush Katif farmers
Ministerial Disengagement Committee Convened on Monday Night
(IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Ministerial Disengagement Committee convened on Monday night approving the rental of close to 2,000 hotel rooms for displaced disengagement families. The committee almost doubled the number of available rooms from the original 1,000.
Committee members made a series of decisions regarding the construction of temporary and permanent housing for Gaza and northern Samaria refugees.
Approximately 130 additional 90-square meter mobile homes will be ordered for families that have already reached agreement with the government; public institutions and areas will be built in communities that are designated to absorb evictees (Yad Binyamin, Mavki’im, Carmiya, Or HaNer and Miflasim); and infrastructure planning will proceed regarding the construction of permanent housing in Bustan Hagalil, Magen Shaul and Ein Tzurim.
Committee members approved assistance for bereaved families in moving the graves of their loved ones from Gaza to inside pre-1967 Green Line Israel.
