Gush Katif expulsion victims contended with a storm that pummeled their temporary homes - six years after they were expelled.
By David Lev
First Publish: 11/21/2011, 2:42 PM
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The wet and wild weather in Israel over the past week brought “rains of blessing” to most parts of the country. But the rains were somewhat less than blessed for residents of the Nitzan “caravilla” village – wherefamilies who were thrown out of their homes in Gush Katif by the Israeli government in 2005 are still living, six years later.
According to building experts, the shoddily-built temporary housing, akin to a poorly built mobile home, has a life span of about two years – meaning that the residents of the site, who have still not been given homes to replace the ones they were expelled from as a result of the disengagement, are vulnerable to all manner of bad weather, like the storms that hit Israel over the weekend.
According to building experts, the shoddily-built temporary housing, akin to a poorly built mobile home, has a life span of about two years – meaning that the residents of the site, who have still not been given homes to replace the ones they were expelled from as a result of the disengagement, are vulnerable to all manner of bad weather, like the storms that hit Israel over the weekend.
On Sunday afternoon, a major squall hit the area of Nitzan near Ashkelon, where the caravilla village is located, blowing the roofs off more than a dozen homes, and sending almost anything that wasn't nailed down (and even some things that were) flying dangerously through the air. Several electrical poles fell, and there was major damage to the roads in the village as well. Read the rest on: Arutz7
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