The belonging left behind will be packed in two containers. Not everything will be packed. Items attached to the wall (cabinets, air condition) or the ceiling (lamps) will not be packed.
How will the evacuation process of property take place?
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Although the Government is not compelled, by law, to take care of the belongings left behind, it has undertaken this mission upon itself wishing to assist the families in rehabilitating their lives elsewhere.
Teams from the Military Rabbinical Unit will be the first to enter after inspection of the house and everything around it takes place.
They will take off the Mezuzot (a Jewish religious item placed on the doors identifying the house dwellers as Jewish). Each Mezuzah will be placed in a different envelope and finally they will be placed in a separate box.
A professional team will pack the belongings according to categories:
Personal (letters, albums) commemoration elements, electrical appliances, furniture, books (including prayer books) clothes, utensils, other. Everything will be listed down and the boxes will be stored in two containers.
Every person who enters the house, not only the packaging team is documented.
The file with all the documentation including photos will be duplicated. One copy goes to Zim, the company that will run the storage site and one copy goes into the container.
In the future, the family will identify itself to the Sela Administration and with their approval receive the stored containers which will be delivered to their new house.
Each person has his own moral principles. Still, in the preparations for the task ahead, we included lectures on law and stressed specifically we will act severly with everyone who will not abide the rules and perform a felony.
We have planned a set of safety measures to prevent such an event:
Documenting the belongings before they are packed (including photos)
Documenting the packaging team and everyone who enters the house during the packaging process
Listing the items packed
Defining procedures for handling special items such as money, jewelry or arms, if they are found
Although by law the Government does not have the obligation to evacuate belongings that were left behind, in undertaking this mission upon itself, it has also taken care of the necessary insurance arrangements.
Accordingly, the contractor hired for the task has an insurance policy to cover all the stages.
The M.O.D will evacuate private cars which will be transported by trailers to the storage area in Kastina.
Their owners will be able to receive them once they present the ownership certificate to the Sela Administration and receive their permit to take it out of storage.
How long will the containers stay in storage? Where?
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The containers will stay in storage for a few months.
Containers from the Gaza Strip will be stored in Kastina. Containers from Samaria will be stored in Ein Shemer.
Will it be possible to enter the storage area in order to take out belongings?
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The Government's decision is quite clear on this issue: "it will not be possible to take belongings from the container once it is stored. It will be possible only when the container is taken out of storage."
The storage area will include thousands of containers placed one on top of the other and it is logistically impossible to operate it as a cloakroom.
According to the agreement with the Palestinian Authority, the public buildings in the Gaza Strip will remain intact.
Houses will be demolished in order to build instead skyscrapers which answer the housing needs of the Palestinian population.
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 and 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, six 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.
Safely experts in this field followed the preparations for the operation and will be there, when it takes place, to assure all safety regulations are followed.
The destiny of the fixed building serving as synagogues will be decided by
the Government.
Demolition teams have been hired by the Ministry of Defense in case the
Government reaffirms its decision of 2004 to pull them down in order to
prevent sacrilege.