, just over the border from their former homes. Among the arguments in opposition to
Israel's unilateral disengagement plan, which stated that the settlers should be evicted from Elei Sinai, was a proposal by Farhan allowing the settlers to remain in their homes as Palestinian citizens, an idea the Palestinians and the Israeli government rejected. The residents had actually left their homes voluntarily but returned after realizing that the government had no place to send them. After the eviction, a group of fifty families established themselves at the
Yad Mordechai junction as a protest that the government hadn't found a community solution for them. Others were sent to the Shirat HaYam hotel. The rest of the settlement later split into a few groups, including those now found in: •
Karmia, who were promised future homes in
Talmei Yafeh close to
Ashkelon. •
Or HaNer, who were promised future homes in the
Bat Hadar neighborhood close to Ashkelon. Farhan and a part of his family establish a new group and hope to establish a new community in the center of the country. The government agreed in 2006 to acclimatize this group in
Palmachim. ==2023 Gaza war==