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Morag (Israeli settlement)

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “moshav and an israeli settlement in gush katif”. Today it says “israeli settlement organized as a moshav in the gush katif settlement bloc”.
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Morag ( , lit.1 Flail ) was a moshav and an Israeli settlement in Gush Katif , in the south-west edge of the Gaza Strip , evacuated in Israel 's disengagement of 2005.2 The southernmost settlement in Gush Katif , it was first established on May 29, 1972 as a non-religious pioneer Nahal military outpost, and demilitarized when turned over to residential purposes in 1982. It later became a religious agricultural worker cooperative , whose residents earned their living growing flowers and vegetables in hothouses. At the time of the evacuation, there were about forty families including about 200 people. Sixteen families of Morag were evicted on August 17, 2005 by the Israel Defense Forces and Israeli Police . Others had left earlier following the government orders. On the ruins of the destroyed village, an Arab locality is being built in its place called Sheikh Khalifa City .3

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moshav and an israeli settlement in gush katif

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israeli settlement organized as a moshav in the gush katif settlement bloc

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