A Palestinian security guard sits at a university built on the former Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip August 6, 2015. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - It would, said then prime minister Ariel Sharon, a former major-general not given to self-doubt, "grant Israeli citizens the maximum level of security". Other optimists said it would turn Gaza into the Hong Kong of the Middle East.
A decade on from Israel's unilateral withdrawal of around 8,500 Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip, the legacy of that August 2005 "disengagement" still provokes angry debate in Israeli society.
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