Residents of an entire Gaza Strip settlement have agreed to a deal that would relocate them outside the Gaza Strip, Haaretz reports this morning.
According to the report, residents of Pa'at Sadeh, which is located in the south of Gush Katif, will move to Moshav Mavki'im, south of Ashkelon, if Sharon's disengagement plan is implemented.
Pa'at Sadeh is one of five secular settlements in Gush Katif and home to 17 families.
I bet the residents were under tremendous pressure not to accept such an arrangement. I'd be curious to know how they'll be treated by more extremist settler elements now, and particularly how their children will be treated by classmates.
But the timing of the deal is important, with news in recent days of alarmingly high percentages of settlers ready to resist the evacuation (see yesterday's post on Yediot poll).
Divide and conquer.
