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05/25/2005:

"Grief of mother over Gaza pullout"

Dvir Hemo was 11 years old when he stepped in front of a car one Saturday evening on his way to get pizza. By sunset the next day, his body had been interred in the small, neat cemetery in the Jewish settlement block of Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip, where the Star of David flies over 46 graves.
For the past two and a half years, Dvir's mother, Iris, has visited his grave - at first every day, then at least once a week. But she faces the agony of leaving her dead son behind when, this summer, she and her family are forced to leave their homes on Palestinian land.

Dvir's whole short life was tied to Gush Katif, said Mrs Hemo; every memory she has of him is there. "I don't want to think about what will happen to my son's grave," she said. "I pray every day that evacuation won't happen."

Dvir's tombstone lies behind a tall fence and padlocked gates a few hundred metres from the teeming and dilapidated Palestinian refugee camp of Khan Yunis, where 40,000 people live in overcrowded cinder block homes under Israeli army watchtowers. It is very different from the tidy bungalows, green lawns and wide avenues of Gush Katif, home to 5,500 Jewish settlers.

In a few months, that land - with other colonies in Gaza and the northern West Bank - will be returned to the Palestinians as part of Ariel Sharon's unilateral disengagement plan.
Full: guardian.co.uk

This article is shameful. How many Palestinian mothers have lost their children in Gaza, and far more hideously than being hit by a car?