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Sharon government carries out Gaza disengagement

In August 2005 the government of Ariel Sharon removed all Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip, along with four in the northern West Bank, under its disengagement plan. Some of the roughly 8,000 Jewish settlers living in Gaza had vowed to defy the prime minister's plan and refuse to leave.

Ariel Sharon (Wikimedia Commons portrait; person avatar reused as fact cover, land-pack1 pattern).

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In August 2005 the government of Ariel Sharon removed all Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip, along with four in the northern West Bank, under its disengagement plan. Some of the roughly 8,000 Jewish settlers living in Gaza had vowed to defy the prime minister's plan and refuse to leave.

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  • Ariel Sharon

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    Sharon government carries out Gaza disengagement. Actor role on this event; contribution size permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction). Contribution size is permanently_blocked (no sourced fraction); provisional 0.4 stored because contributions.size is NOT NULL.

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  1. 1.npr.orgchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, final URL = original (no non-trivial redirect), claim in text: sharon+disengagement · verified
  2. 2.jewishvirtuallibrary.orgchecked 2026-10-15 GET 200, final URL = original (no non-trivial redirect), claim in text: sharon+disengagement · verified

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Factrail. (2026). Sharon government carries out Gaza disengagement. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/sharon-gaza-disengagement-2005-08

https://factrail.ai/facts/sharon-gaza-disengagement-2005-08

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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