Disengagement by number
The Israel Project marks the one-year anniversary of the Disengagement/Expulsion, edited and added to somewhat here by yours truly. See original for many sources and links.
100 percent of the Gaza Strip was evacuated and handed over to the Palestinians.
One year later: More than 500 rockets have been fired into Israel from Gaza.

A Palestinian Islamic Jihahd militant, holding a rocket propelled grenade launcher, stands on top of a synagogue in the former Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim ... (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
4 Israeli settlements, 300 square miles of the West Bank, were evacuated.
One year later: Israel's withdrawal from four northern West Bank settlements created an area more than twice the size of Gaza's 140 square miles under Palestinian control and devoid of any Israeli presence.
21 Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip were uprooted.
One year later: More than 1,600 attacks ranging from rockets and suicide bombings to small arms fire have been perpetrated against Israelis by Palestinian terrorists.
9,000 Israelis, including 1,700 families, resided in the Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank. All of them were moved out as part of the withdrawal.
One year later: 1,400 families continue to live in temporary housing and 100 families live in hotels.
48 graves in Gaza's Gush Katif Cemetery, including six graves of area residents murdered by terrorists, were uprooted.
One year later: 0 Israelis, dead or alive, remain in Gaza.
38 synagogues were dismantled in the Gaza Strip.
[I don't know how many were burned, but whatever the number, it's the most since Nazi Germany. At least one is now a HAMAS museum.]
5,000 school-age children had to find new schools
One year later: 30 percent of schoolchildren who had to leave their communities aren't able to adjust to their new schools.
42 daycare centers were closed in the Gaza Strip
36 kindergartens were closed in the Gaza Strip
7 elementary schools were closed in the Gaza Strip
3 high schools were closed in the Gaza Strip
320 mobile homes, ordered by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, served as temporary housing for settlers, with approximately 300 additional mobile homes to be ordered in the future.
One year later: It will take at least 1 more year to build permanent housing for those uprooted from their homes
45,000 Israeli soldiers and policemen participated in the Gaza withdrawal
220 Israeli farmers were moved out of Gaza.
One year later: Only 38 of the farmers living in Gaza were able to resume limited agricultural work (but lost their markets).
800 cows, which comprised the second largest dairy farm in Israel, were moved out of Gush Katif in Gaza
$120 million in flowers and produce exported annually from Gush Katif were lost.
One zoo, the "Katifari," that housed hundreds of animals was moved
10,000 people employed in agriculture and related industries in the Gush Katif area of Gaza, including 5,000 Palestinians, had to seek new jobs.
One year later: 51 percent of adults are still unemployed.
60 percent of Israel's cherry tomato exports came from the Gaza Strip. Israel's withdrawal from Gaza extinguished this economic resource.
3.5 million square meters (almost 1,000 acres) of greenhouses were abandoned in Gaza
70 percent of Israel's organic produce was grown in Gaza. This was another economic resource that was lost as part of disengagement
60 percent of the herbs exported from Israel came from Gush Katif
15 percent of Israel's agricultural exports originated in Gaza - exports that were lost following Israel's withdrawal from Gaza
$500 million was the amount of money Israel's security establishment spent to relocate Israel Defense Forces bases outside the Gaza Strip and build new border crossing facilities.
One year later: The cost of disengagement has risen to NIS 9 billion ($2 billion) and is expected to increase.
One year later: 1.4 million Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip, many of them in Palestinian Authority-controlled refugee camps, now live under their own leaders.







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