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| Gaza evacuees to receive land in Nitzanim |
| 2005-04-12 |
| Every settler family that moves to "Gush Nitzanim" as part of a collective move would be given a plot of 500 square meters under a proposed plan, Haaretz has learned, and families that owned agricultural tracts in Gush Katif and have heirs who want to continue to farm would receive larger tracts, of 1.2 dunams. Recipients of large plots would be given the right to build two homes as well as monetary compensation for the homes they left behind, but not compensation for the land. As part of the compensation package, the settlers would also receive "development expenses" for free, a benefit valued at tens of thousands of dollars, as well as the "Negev Grant" of $30,000, which the Evacuation Compensation Law grants anyone settling from Ashkelon southward. These benefits are part of the package being put together for an en masse move of Gush Katif settlers to the Nitzanim area, just north of Ashkelon. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will inform the settlers next week upon his return from the U.S. if he approves of the Nitzanim plan. Attorney Avi Drexler, who conceived the plan, said that "if the prime minister adopts the plan and gets it approved, the whole evacuation scenario will be different, and I say this based on many talks with central figures in Gush Katif." An important milestone is the next High Court discussion of the petitions against the Evacuation Compensation Law. That discussion, which will be presided over by 11 judges, is scheduled for early next month. Senior sources involved in the Nitzanim plan say the settlers prefer to wait at least until then to find out if they will be accorded any kind of financial relief from the High Court, instead of having to negotiate over it with the government. One senior legal source said that many details of the agreement are not yet settled. Senior sources connected to the plan say that the critical question which could decide whether the plan materializes is what housing solutions will be given to the settlers in the interim. According to current plans of the disengagement administration, the settlers are to be housed initially in hotels. The settlers, however, vehemently oppose this. A different solution would have the settlers housed in prefabricated "cara-villas" on individually owned plots, where their future homes will be built. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #3 My cousin's ranch is about 1/4 the size of Gaza and it only suports a family of 4. Probably has more water too. That said. I never figured out where Israel parks all the weapons we have sold them over the decades. Maybe 14 story underground garages? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2005-04-12 11:43:19 PM |
| #2 1/8th of an acre? That doesn't sound like much to me. |
| Posted by: Sheik Abu Bin Ali Al-Yahood 2005-04-12 9:03:12 PM |
| #1 500 M^2? "acre n 1: a unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries" So: about 1/8 of an acre. Woo hoo! |
| Posted by: mojo 2005-04-12 11:11:30 AM |