The evidence from the cities near the Kızıl (Halys) River and Cappadocia, however, does not support this picture of an invading army, destroying settlements in its path and evicting their inhabitants.
Seven thousand have been launched at nearby Israeli towns since army barracks and settlements were withdrawn from Gaza in 2005.
An army database on settlements discloses why these conditions were never met: "Most of Ofra was built 'with no legal basis' on land privately owned by Palestinians".
If the Israeli Army evacuated such settlements — and this is not happening soon — the people might resist, but it is believed that they will not shoot.
As his landscape becomes more truncated - by the Israeli army and Israeli settlements - Shehadeh, an eminent lawyer, documents his legal struggle to safeguard his walks.
"With the removal of the army from cities, settlements became the Palestinians' first-hand experience of the occupation," says Menachem Klein, an Israeli political scientist who served as an adviser to Ehud Barak's government.
So it came as a bit of a shock to discover that for the Palestinians in the occupied territories, people like her are irrelevant, far removed from the immediate reality of the extraordinarily harsh conditions imposed on them by the Israelis, their army and their settlements.
Nevertheless, the arrival of a large Byzantine army induced several settlements, which had previously submitted to the Muslims, to rise in revolt.
"We don't think the Palestinians can conquer a settlement," an army official said, "but they can come to the fence and shoot.
On Wednesday night, soldiers killed a Palestinian militant trying to cross a fence near Gan Or, another Gaza settlement, the army said.
