Sentence examples for strip settlement from inspiring English sources

Ariel Sharon uprooted Ayana Yogev from the Jewish settlement where she was born, and now Mr. Sharon is threatening to oust her from the Gaza Strip settlement where she has started a family of her own.

"Everyone understands that giving everything and receiving nothing is not peace," declared Yehuda Sender, an 8-year-old from a Gaza Strip settlement, in a speech he told television interviewers had been written by the leader of the settlers' council.

Roiling the emotions on both sides, some of the victims of violence have been small children: a 10-month-old Israeli girl killed last week in Hebron, a 10-month-old Israeli boy wounded today in the Gaza Strip settlement of Atzmona and a 4-year-old Palestinian girl who lost her left eye as a result of an intensive Israeli barrage on Bethlehem on Monday.

Israel foolishly dismantled 21 Gaza Strip settlements in 2005.

"We not only have the right to keep building, it is the obligation of the Jewish state to help us build," said Adi Mintz, director general of the Settlers Council, which represents Israelis living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip settlements.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon may seek to move settlers from the Gaza Strip to settlements in the West Bank under his plan for "unilateral disengagement" from the Palestinians, officials in his office said Friday.

Mr. Bush will have to press Israel's prime minister, Ariel Sharon, to part with most of the West Bank and Gaza Strip Jewish settlements he has made a career of building and defending.

Scattered throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the settlements have succeeded in restricting Israel's flexibility in deploying troops and giving up land, and they seem destined to inflame Palestinians unless an Israeli government dismantles them.

The government encouraged them to move there some after being evacuated from Yamit, the settlement strip at the north of the Sinai, when Israel gave it back to Egypt in 1982.

NEVE DEKALIM, Gaza, Aug. 11 - Interviews on Thursday with a sampling of households on one block at the center of the Gaza Strip's largest settlement show a range of preparation and resistance.

Two Palestinians were killed as they staged a drive-by ambush on an Israeli Jeep in the Gaza Strip near the settlement of Gush Katif this afternoon, and two Israeli soldiers were wounded, one critically.