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A government publicly cancelled its destruction plan while bulldozers were still demolishing the city

A government publicly cancelled its destruction plan while bulldozers were still demolishing the city

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A government publicly cancelled its destruction plan while bulldozers were still demolishing the city

A public cancellation and continued demolition unfolded on the same morning of May 18, 2004: the government announced it was cancelling its plan to widen the buffer zone along the Gaza-Egypt border while army bulldozers in Tel al-Sultan kept moving, leaving 254 houses destroyed and nearly 4,000 people homeless. How did a declared halt coexist with continuing razing, and who records that contradiction?

In this episode, we tell what the record shows about Rafah in May 2004, tracing the timeline from prior clearances and the April demolitions through the events that accelerated after May 11, and we ask whether the stated justifications explain the documented outcomes.

Person: Israeli government, Israeli army, Israeli High Court, human rights investigators, United Nations
Date: May 2004 (key events: May 11, May 13, May 14, May 15, May 16, May 17, May 18)
Location: Rafah, Tel al-Sultan, Gaza Strip (along the Philadelphi Route)
Event: Operation Rainbow (Mivtza Keshet Be-Anan)
Status: Public cancellation announced May 18, 2004; demolitions continued

- 254 houses destroyed during the twelve-day military operation
- Nearly 4,000 people rendered homeless as a result of the operation
- 487 houses demolished in Rafah between April 2003 and April 2004 prior to Operation Rainbow
- Eleven Israeli soldiers killed on May 11, 2004, when two M113 armored personnel carriers were destroyed
- Between 100 and 120 houses demolished by the morning of May 15, 2004, after a plan approved before dawn on May 13 declared intent to destroy "dozens or perhaps hundreds" of homes

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