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Elei Sinai אֱלֵי סִינַי | |
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  Elei Sinai | |
| Coordinates:31°35′01″N34°30′09″E / 31.58361°N 34.50250°E /31.58361; 34.50250 | |
| Founded | 1983 |
| Population (2004) | 389 |
Elei Sinai (Hebrew:אֱלֵי סִינַי,romanized: Towards Sinai) was anIsraeli settlement in the north of theGaza Strip.
Elei Sinai was established in 1982 (Sukkot 5743) by a group who had been evicted fromYamit in theSinai Peninsula. It was named for the yearning to return to the Sinai desert, where Yamit was located.
Avi Farhan, a Yamit expellee, and Arik Herfez, whose daughter had been killed by Palestinian militants, were two of the most notable residents.
Among the arguments in opposition toIsrael'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,[1][2] an idea the Palestinians 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.[clarification needed]
After the eviction, a group of fifty families established themselves at theYad 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:
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 inPalmachim.
The site of Elei Sinai was captured by the IDF following theinvasion of its ground forces into the Gaza Strip on October 27, 2023. Their entry into Elei Sinai was part of a pincer move to surround Gaza City, located to the south of Elei Sinai.[citation needed]
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