Personal Stories of Intimidation in Gush Katif
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"13:38 Jul 29, '05 / 22 Tammuz 5765
By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Government intimidation has left two women in Gush Katif with bitter thoughts and emotions towards Sharon. They do not compare the expulsion with the Holocaust, but some feelings are similar."
"We are being beaten, mishandled [and] are being prevented from leaving our towns to protest, by jeeps and tanks that close us in. The IDF knows that we are planning small, quiet and passive legitimate protests... via their listening to our cell phones."
Tucker said that plainclothes policemen drive into Gush Katif communities and intimidate children, whom she said are "harassed [and] frightened.... Twelve year olds, who do not yet have identity cards, are forced sometimes to wait alone at the Kisufim checkpoint with all the army [and] police... while their older sister drives home to get their mother's ID."
""In Kfar Maimon, the police beat up Judea, Samaria and Gaza leaders, breaking the ribs of one of them, and threatened that if anyone dared to cut the fence, they would shoot to kill… Instead of having the security forces patrol the area to protect Jews and chase Arab terrorists, the forces are stationed... looking for 'illegal' Jews... who are not residents of Gush Katif.... It is difficult not to make associations with what our enemies did to us in Europe.""
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By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Government intimidation has left two women in Gush Katif with bitter thoughts and emotions towards Sharon. They do not compare the expulsion with the Holocaust, but some feelings are similar."
"We are being beaten, mishandled [and] are being prevented from leaving our towns to protest, by jeeps and tanks that close us in. The IDF knows that we are planning small, quiet and passive legitimate protests... via their listening to our cell phones."
Tucker said that plainclothes policemen drive into Gush Katif communities and intimidate children, whom she said are "harassed [and] frightened.... Twelve year olds, who do not yet have identity cards, are forced sometimes to wait alone at the Kisufim checkpoint with all the army [and] police... while their older sister drives home to get their mother's ID."
""In Kfar Maimon, the police beat up Judea, Samaria and Gaza leaders, breaking the ribs of one of them, and threatened that if anyone dared to cut the fence, they would shoot to kill… Instead of having the security forces patrol the area to protect Jews and chase Arab terrorists, the forces are stationed... looking for 'illegal' Jews... who are not residents of Gush Katif.... It is difficult not to make associations with what our enemies did to us in Europe.""
Click here to read the whole thing.