Attempted Return to Nisanit in Northern Gaza

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Hillel Fendel and Ezra HaLevi, IsraelNationalNews, 27/07/07 12 Av 5767. The day before the 2nd anniversary of the beginning of the forced expulsion from Gush Katif, which falls on Friday, a bid to rebuild Nisanit, in northern Gaza, is attempted. In 96-degree (Farhrenheit; 36 degrees Centigrade) heat on Thursday afternoon, hundreds of former Gush Katif residents and current-day sympathizers attempted to march towards northern Gaza. They wished to revisit - and ultimately, to rebuild - the site of the northernmost destroyed community, Nisanit. Led by Rabbis Shmuel Eliyahu of Tzfat and Yishai Bar-Hen of the Jewish towns in northern Gaza, as well as MKs Uri Ariel and Aryeh Eldad, the group convened at the Yad Mordechai junction. They started their march outside the kibbutz, one that staved off the Egyptian army for six days in 1948, preventing Egypt from conquering Israel's Mediterranean coastline and coastal plain.

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