A decade later, many Israelis see Gaza pullout as a big mistake
A Jewish settler weeps as she is forced to leave her home in Kfar Darom on Aug. 18, 2005. (Heidi Levine/Sipa Press)
Palestinian workers in the early morning by greenhouses that still remain from the former Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim on Aug. 3, 2015. They are still used to grow vegetables but farmers complain that they cannot export. (Heidi Levine/For The Washington Post)
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Ten years ago this month, the Israeli army undertook one of its most controversial missions, uprooting more than 8,000 Jewish settlers from their homes here in Gaza, some by force.
Many Israelis today believe all they got for their troubles were more rockets.
The evacuation of all Israeli troops and civilians from the Gaza Strip, a unilateral “disengagement” ordered by then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in 2005, at the urging of President George W. Bush, was a searing episode for Israel, and a gamble.
