Elei Sinai

Eley Sinai (Hebrew אֱלֵי סִינַי ) was one of three Israeli settlements on the northern edge of the Gaza Strip. She made the settlements Dugit and New Nisanit a block and bordered in the north- west to the Mediterranean. In the south, bordering the settlement bloc in the Palestinian city Atrata.

History

1967-2005

The Gaza Strip was occupied militarily by Israel in 1967. Eley Sinai was in 1982 ( according to the Jewish calendar in the Sukkot 5743 ) founded by a group of Jewish settlers who came from Jamit in the northeast of the Sinai Peninsula; Jamit had been cleared when the Sinai was returned according to the 1982 Israeli- Egyptian peace treaty of 1979 in Egypt.

Between 2001 and 2004, several attacks were perpetrated by Palestinian militants.

2005

In 2004, the Israeli government announced that in the wake of the unilateral Disengagement Plan Israel be dissolved, all Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip, including Eley Sinai. With the implementation of the plan began on 15 August 2005. A group of Israeli settlers said they would be willing to become Palestinian citizens in order to remain in Eley Sinai can. This idea was rejected by the Palestinian and the Israeli government alike. During the evacuation of the Gaza Strip, the Sinai settlement Eley was finally abandoned on 21 August 2005 later destroyed by the Israeli armed forces and handed over to the Palestinians on September 12, 2005.

From the evacuated residents and the kibbutzim Karmia Or HaNer were founded near Ashkelon. One of the groups asked to plant a church in the center of the country. The government agreed in 2006 to include the group in Palm Achim.