WRAP Settlers leaving with Torah scrolls, boarding buses, at crossing

Описание: (22 Aug 2005)

Netzarim
1. Wide shot exterior of synagogue
2. Interior of synagogue, soldiers in foreground, Rabbis in background carrying Torah scrolls
3. Close up of man in orange T shirt crying
4. Settlers kissing scrolls
5. Soldiers watching
6. Pan of women crying upstairs on balcony
7. Various of men crying outside synagogue
8. Exterior of synagogue
9. Menorah being taken out in procession, Israeli flag
10. Three settlers leaning against wall weeping

Netzarim
11. Rabbi at front of procession carrying Torah scrolls
12. Banner outside settlers'' homes: You destroy our home but not our spirit
13. Menorah being carried out
14. Rabbi at front of procession carrying Torah scrolls
15. Soldier hugging settler
16. Soldier walking with arm around settler
17. Settler carrying Israeli flag

Netzarim
18. Various of settlers getting on bus

Karni crossing
19. Wide shot of buses driving through crossing, with Israeli flag flying out of window

STORYLINE:

The last Jewish settlers to leave their homes in Israel''s historic pullout of the Gaza Strip marched behind Torah scrolls and a large wooden menorah in Netzarim on Monday.

Around midday LOCAL (0900gmt), hundreds crowded the synagogue for final prayers.

After the ceremony, the residents chanted and prayed as they walked behind a Jewish menorah, and several Torah scrolls.

They then boarded buses with darkened bulletproof windows and began driving out of Netzarim in more than 30 armoured buses and headed to the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Judaism''s holiest shrine.

From there they would move to temporary homes in a West Bank settlement.

By mid-afternoon the settlement was about half empty.

The 600 residents of the farming community, one of Gaza''s first settlements, put up no resistance after reaching an agreement with the military on a quiet departure.

Netzarim, on the outskirts of Gaza City, has been the target of frequent attacks by Palestinian militants and was one of the coastal strip''s most hardline and isolated settlements.

Israeli troops guarding the settlement have also clashed with Palestinians, including teenage stone throwers, at a nearby junction.

Throughout the past five years of fighting, an entire army battalion, or about 550 soldiers, guarded Netzarim - or about one soldier per settler.

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