Very different slants to reports about today's events at Neve Dekalim. The Jerusalem Post :
The clashes broke out after security forces moved to disperse hundreds of resisters, mostly teenage youths, who attempted to block moving trucks from entering Gaza's largest settlement.
By 1:30 p.m. the wild confrontation had largely subsided, thanks in part to settler leaders who addressed the protestors on loudspeakers and appealed to them to let the moving vans through. The vans had come to service families who wished to leave and they should not be hindered, settler leaders said.
One policeman was seen being led away from the scene with blood coming out his mouth. According to Channel 1, a police photographer was wounded when an activist poured an acidic substance on the policeman's face, which entered his eyes.
Utterly inexcusable, under any circumstances. But here's Arutz Sheva:
Tzviki Bar-Chai, the Yesha Council's leading representative in Gush Katif, says that the army has broken its word regarding the way in which it would bring in the large moving containers. "We made a deal with them, they broke it, and everything is off," Bar-Chai said. "This is the manner in which those who are sending the army on this despicable mission have been acting all along. It's very hard for Ariel Sharon to see these pictures of most of the residents refusing to even pack, and therefore he wants to show violence and police clashing with these wonderful residents."
The situation in N'vei Dekalim is now described as a "potentially explosive stalemate." Special Yassam police forces are in the process of trying to bring in containers for the minority of families who wish to pack up. Protestors have tried to impede their progress, burning trash containers and the like, but the police are making their way slowly along. Several communal leaders have called for the residents to allow the police to advance. Voices of protest were raised, but it appears that the stormy atmosphere has calmed down somewhat.
