On the one hand there was concern about what an independent Gaza might become. On the other, too many soldiers had spent too many years having to guard Jewish and Palestinian families in the Strip. In highly emotive scenes, many Jews who had lived in Gaza all their lives refused to leave their homes. The Israeli government sent in soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to remove these families and tore them from their houses. The Israeli government knew—and the Palestinian Authority had always made clear—that no Palestinian state could have Jews in it. The one absolutely clear
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