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The Construction Department of the Ministry of Defense will carry out the Government's decision concerning demolition of the houses.
Accordingly, the Ministry of Defense is preparing itself for the demolition of 2800 houses.
321 public buildings in the Gaza Strip will be handed over to the Palestinian Authority.
Synagogues will be evacuated from their contents:
Everything will be packed with utmost sensitivity as required by the nature of the items involved. The packaging process will be accompanied by teams from the Ministry for Religious Affairs and the Military Rabbinical Unit.
The Ministry of Defense will carry out the Government decision concerning
the fate of the synagogues.
Demolition will commence once evacuation of the settlement from its dwellers and their property will end.
Eight contractors were chosen to perform the sensitive task of demolition, 6 of them in the Gaza Stip and two in Northern Samaria.
Each of them has a "back up" in order to perform the job on time.
Professional teams comprising of supervisors from the MOD's Construction Department as well as contractors, operators of heavy machinery and the like were organized.
For every settlement a "Point of Contact" from the Ministry was designated and he will be in charge of organizing the forces within the settlement all through the stages of demolition and evacuation of security elements.
Every Sunday a large convoy will leave the staging area near Ashkelon and move towards the Gaza Strip, secured by IDF forces and accompanied by the police and the military police.
Work in the settlements will run all through the week and on Thursday night, the forces will leave the area and go home, so that the team will have time to rest during the weekend.
Prior to the demolition, special task forces will dismantle asbestos elements according to environmental regulations and evacuate them to special sites within Israel.
Final inspections will then take place to ensure the houses have been disconnected from electricity, that there are so no gas tanks and most important, that there are no people in the designated area.
Safety regulations will be kept in order to prevent accidents.
Safety experts followed the preparations for the operation and will be there, when it takes place, to assure all safety regulations are followed.
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