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FARAWAY, SO CLOSE: THE LEGAL STATUS OF GAZA AFTER ISRAEL'S DISENGAGEMENT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2007

Yuval Shany
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On 12 September 2005, at around 7 a.m., the last group of Israeli soldiers left the Gaza Strip, thereby ending 38 years of continued Israeli military presence in the area. In a short ceremony at one of the exit gates, IDF Brigadier-General Aviv Kochavi, the departing Gaza Region Commander, stated: ‘the responsibility for whatever takes place inside befalls upon the [Palestinian] Authority.’ On that same night, the IDF Chief of Southern Command, Major-General Dan Harel, promulgated an official decree proclaiming the end of military rule in the Gaza Strip and formally nullifying the decree issued on 6 June 1967, which instituted military rule in the region. So came to end Israel's prolonged occupation of Gaza – or did it?

Keywords

IsraelGaza StripOccupation of GazaOccupied Palestinian Territories
Type
Current Developments
Information
Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law , Volume 8 , December 2005 , pp. 369 - 383
Copyright
© 2005 T. M. C. Asser Instituut, The Hague, The Netherlands

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