GUSH KATIF, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Israeli and Palestinian forces deployed on Sunday to ensure calm in the final countdown to Israel's evacuation of Jewish settlements in the occupied Gaza Strip.
Thousands of Israeli police blocked approaches to Gaza to keep back Jewish protesters sworn to stopping the first removal of settlements this week from land Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war and which Palestinians want for a state.
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