Gaza - Images of Anguish

Reuters, AP, AFP,Getty, LATimes & others | August 18th, 2005

[M. Espinola]

Gaza - Images of Anguish

Settler girls living in the southern Gaza Strip settlement of Neve Dekalim play on a sign that reads 'Neve Dekalim,' moments before leaving her Jewish town (settlement) with their family for good.(AFP/Roberto Schmidt)

An Israeli resident is comforted by an Israeli soldier after the evacuation of the synagogue in the Gaza Strip settlement of Neve Dekalim. The United States pressed Israel on the need for further peace moves after the withdrawal from Gaza but risked resistance from Prime Minister Ariel Sharon who vowed to continue West Bank settlement activity.(AFP/Thomas Coex)

Jewish women are comforted by Israeli soldiers after being removed from the women's section of the synagogue at the settlement of Neve Dekalim, Gaza Strip, August 18th, 2005. Israeli troops stormed two Gaza Strip synagogues and dragged out screaming residents and supporters on Thursday in assaults on the last bastions of resistance to a pullout from the occupied territory. (Oleg Popov/Reuters)

An Israeli boy looks out the window of a bus after he and his family were forced to leave their home in the Southern Gaza Settlement of Shirat Hayam. 8-18-05 (AFP/Roberto Schmidt)

Girls cry as they sit on the roof of their house trying to escape the Israeli military who came to evict them from their home, in the Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim, in the southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Aug. 18th, 2005. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

A Jewish resident is comforted by a member of the Israeli security forces during the evacuation of the Jewish settlement of Shirat Hayam, in the southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Aug. 18th, 2005. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

A Jewish (citizen) residents argues with an Israeli security officer during the forced evacuation of settlers from the synagogue of the Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim, in the southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Aug. 18th, 2005. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

Israelis weep, as Israeli security forces stand guard in front of the Ark, the place the Torah scrolls are kept, inside the synagogue of the Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim, in the southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Aug. 18th, 2005. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

An Israeli resident shouts at Israeli security forces from a window of the synagogue in the Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim, in the southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Aug. 18th, 2005. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

Israeli troops storm synagogue in Gaza's largest settlement Aug. 18th, 2005(Photo: David Silverman/Getty Images)

Aug. 18th, 2005 (Photo: Yoray Liberman/Getty Images)

Aug. 18th, 2005 Gaza (Photo: David Silverman/Getty Images)

A Jewish resident is carried away by Israeli soldiers as he is forced out of the settlement of Neve Dekalim in the Gaza Strip. 8-18-05 (By David Guttenfelder, AP)

Israeli army Brig. Gen. Erez Zuckerman tries to comfort a Jewish residents who has been ordered to leave the Gaza Strip Aug. 15th. By Ariel Jerosolimski, AP

Eretz Yisrael

Jerusalem: Israelis protest against Gaza pullout 8-18-05 (Sky News)

Jewish residents from Gush Katif look out the windows of a bus taking them toward a different life at the Kissufim Crossing just outside the Green Line in Gaza. (Brian Vander Brug / LAT)

A young Israeli from Gush Katif photographed in the window of a bus taking her toward a different life at the Kissufim Crossing. (Brian Vander Brug / LAT)

A young Jewish boy from Gush Katif looks out the window of a bus taking him toward the Kissufim Crossing. (Brian Vander Brug / LAT)

Gush Katif residents comfort each other at the Reim highway checkpoint as cars and busses stream out of the Gaza settlements. (Brian Vander Brug / LAT)

Two shaken Israeli soldiers lead away residents of Neve Dekalim to a bus leaving the settlement. (Carolyn Cole / LAT)

Soldiers escort a grieving Jewish woman. (Carolyn Cole / LAT)

Teenagers climb onto the rooftop and sing in protest to the evacuation of their homes. There are still hundreds of teens roaming around the Jewish settlement. (Carolyn Cole / LAT)

Israeli soldiers wait inside a Jewish home while the residents pray in the back room. They later had to carry the residents out to the bus. (Carolyn Cole / LAT)

Sara Medan, 22, left, waits for soldiers to come to her house in Neve Dekalim. "I can't understand how they can do this to us," she says. On the wall is a verse from the Bible. (Carolyn Cole / LAT)

Emanuel (C), an opponent of Israel's disengagement plan mourns as Israeli security forces secure the rooftop of the synagogue in the Jewish settlement of Kfar Darom in Gush Katif settlements bloc, Gaza Strip, August 18th, 2005. REUTERS/Nir Elias

A Jewish settler reacts as she is being dragged away by Israeli security forces during the evacuation of the Jewish settlement of Shirat Hayam, in the southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Aug. 18th, 2005. Hundreds of soldiers on Thursday broke into the beachside Shirat Hayam outpost, one of Gaza's most hardline Jewish settlements, and began forcibly removing residents. Shirat Hayan is one of the 21 Jewish settlements in Gaza that Israel is dismantling along with four more in the West Bank. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

A Jewish 'settler' citizen holding an Israeli flag gets drenched in water fired from a police canon on the roof of the synagogue at Kfar Darom settlement in the southern Gaza Strip, August 18th, 2005. REUTERS/Paul Hanna

Shirat Hayam, in the southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Aug. 18th, 2005. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

An Ultra-Orthodox Jewish resident weeps as he is escorted out of the synagogue of the Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim Thursday Aug. 18th, 2005. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

Jewish residents of Gaza hurl paint and objects at Israeli police in riot gear from the rooftop of the Kfar Darom synagogue, as they attempt to resist eviction from the Jewish settlement of Kfar Darom, in the southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Aug. 18th, 2005. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)

A Jewish resident in a children's room as Israeli soldiers attempt to remove him from his house at Shirat Hayam beach settlement in Gush Katif area in the Gaza Strip August 18th, 2005. REUTERS/Jerry Lampen

A Jewish boy is comforted by Israeli soldiers before leaving a synagogue in the Neve Dekalim settlement in the Gush Katif bloc of Jewish homes, southern Gaza Strip, August 18th, 2005. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

Jewish girls are comforted by Israeli soldiers after being removed from a synagogue in the Neve Dekalim settlement in the Gush Katif bloc of Jewish settlements, southern Gaza Strip, August 18th, 2005. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

Jewish residents embraces an Israeli army officer(R) as they sing songs and hold hands in front of the synagogue.(AFP/Nicolas Asfouri)

Rebecca David prays in an unfinished part of a shul of the southern Gaza Strip settlement of Neve Dekalim as Israeli police set watch the perimeter of the building.(AFP/Roberto Schmidt)

A Jewish boy is carried by police out of the synagogue of the Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim Thursday Aug. 18th, 2005. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

An Israeli woman cries as the Israeli army begins evacuating Jewish home owners & their families from Neve Dekalim. (Carolyn Cole / LAT)

Soldiers escort an Israeli family to an evacuation bus in Neve Dekalim. Although most families were evacuated, many protesters and settlers remained in the area. (Carolyn Cole / LAT)

Neighbors bid each other goodbye as they prepare to board the bus transporting residents from Neve Dekalilm. (Carolyn Cole / LAT)

A Jewish mother in Neve Dekalim pleads with Israeli security personnel not to go through with evictions. (Carolyn Cole / LAT)

A Jewish girl is forcefully removed from her home by Israeli soldiers in the Neve Deqalim settlement in Gaza, Wednesday morning. (Newsday Photo / Moises Saman)

A barricade burns next to a man sitting with his granddaughter by a container full of house belongings in Neve Deqalim settlement in Gaza, Wednesday morning. (Newsday Photo / Moises Saman)

A Israeli citizen of Gaza is being arrested by Israeli soldiers during clashes in the Neve Deqalim settlement. (Newsday Photo / Moises Saman)

Early morning prayers at the local synagogue in the Neve Deqalim Settlement in Gaza. (Newsday Photo / Moises Saman)

Gaza: 'Palestinian' Arabs 'celebrate' the Gaza pullout with more typical destruction & chaos. 8-18-05 (Sky News)

Graffitti is left on an evacuated home in the Neve Deqalim settlement in Gaza, Wednesday morning. 8-18-05 (Newsday Photo / Moises Saman)

[M. Espinola]

Kol Yisrael Arevim Zeh Lazeh

(All Jews are Responsible for Each Other.)

[diverteach]

I gotta be honest, it does look very reminiscent of nazi germany's roundup of Jews in europe.

[konaice]

Do you spoze this will get Europe to STFU?

[konaice]

I gotta be honest, it does look very reminiscent of nazi germany's roundup of Jews in europe

Yes I remember seeing all those picture of the Nazi soldiers hugging and crying along the Jews as they rounded them up to put them in box cars to send them to the death camp.

What a totally STUPID thing to say.

[claudiustg]

No.

[M. Espinola]

Europe as a whole only really responds after the majority of European states have been invaded by a bordering aggressor.

[FreeReign]

Since when does AP, Reuters and LA Times give a damn about or even show pictures about the anguish of Israelis.

[Mike10542]

I love Secretary Rice, but she can STFU as far as telling Israel in the middle of these troubled times that they need to make more sacrifices.

[M. Espinola]

"I gotta be honest, it does look very reminiscent of nazi germany's roundup of Jews in europe."

This is a very sad internal development among the citizens of the Jewish State of Israel.

The Nazi savages butchered the Jewish people.

The Israeli police & troops fully detest being placed in this despicable situation. Many have offered great acts of kindness to their fellow Jewish citizens being extracted from their very homes.

What have the Arabs, the Islamic fanatics, what have they given up in exchange for Israelis being thrown out of their residencies after many years of improving the land?

[Fitzcarraldo]

Sh'ma Yisrael Adonai Elohaynu Adonai Echad.

Hear, Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One.

[M. Espinola]

"Since when does AP, Reuters and LA Times give a damn about or even show pictures about the anguish of Israelis."

I understand what you are saying completely, however to them this is breaking news and photo-documentation sells, no matter their opinions regarding the security of Israel.

[kstewskis]

God is weeping along with Israel, as is some of us.

[Cecily]

I have been watching the videos of the evacuation, and I admire the soldiers and police for their care and restraint in this sad situation. I hope the Israeli government will get all of these people resettled quickly, and no, I don't mind paying for every penny of the cost (or at least my share as a US taxpayer). Let the Europeans and rich Gulf Arabs support the depressing, dead-ender Pals.

[M. Espinola]

"I love Secretary Rice, but she can STFU as far as telling Israel in the middle of these troubled times that they need to make more sacrifices."

'Sacrifices' in this case play directly into the claws of the Islamic death culture. If Miss Rice, and for that matter the President think Israel is going to retreat for any further land, won in battle, after Israel was repeatedly attacked, by overwhelming Arab enemies in various wars the Arabs stated to exterminate the Jewish people she can STFU right now, since enough is enough.

Not one AK47, none of the illegal Iranian arms brazenly displayed by the enemy in the streets of Gaza or Arab occupied Samaria or Judea has been confiscated from the Islamic jihadist gangs of thugs - not one. Where is the quid pro quo? This is the end of the one way street. No more appeasement!

[Mike10542]

As much as Sharon suprised many of us greatly, I think he will say the same thing. Not one more thing until the terrorist infrstructure is destroyed. If not, then bring on Bibbi.

[M. Espinola]

"God is weeping along with Israel, as is some of us."

It's too much for us to watch. Imagine what the Israeli residents are going through, kicked out of their homes. For what, a so-called 'peace' with Muslim serial killers?

G-d help all of us.

[M. Espinola]

"I have been watching the videos of the evacuation, and I admire the soldiers and police for their care and restraint in this sad situation. I hope the Israeli government will get all of these people resettled quickly, and no, I don't mind paying for every penny of the cost (or at least my share as a US taxpayer). Let the Europeans and rich Gulf Arabs support the depressing, dead-ender Pals."

Bravo! Well stated!

[proudCArepublican]

as a german/american this breaks my heart and like the other post it is like that awful time and it actually has brought tears to my eyes. When I woke up and turned on the news it bothered me that the reporters that I heard never said this is a Holy place and they are destroying it (the soliders) yet in Iraq God forbid we go after the men in Mosque in Sader City we a shooting at our soliders because we dont want to hurt there place of worship. My question is will the people we will get this land be happy, remember it was the Jewish Settlers we built the land, harvest the gardens employed some of the Arabs. Will this people expect the world to build for them and if they can't fend for themselves now how will they do it. However it does seem like the ugly history is repeating itself again I am really saddened. Just like in Germany the Jewish people built businesses and gave alot to Germany yet an evil man destroyed them. I pray as a Christian for the Jewish people because it does say that in the Bible As a Christian this is so Biblical.

Like the saying goes and I dont have it exactly
when they came for the jews i did nothing
when they came for the mormans i did nothing
when they came for the christians i did nothing
when they came for me there was no one left
i know it is not exactly correct in the saying

[M. Espinola]

After this disgrace BiBi must run.

[proudCArepublican]

please forgive all my typos i am preoccupied