(Reuters) Jonathan Saul - Israel Wednesday set in motion its plan to forcibly remove thousands of Jewish settlers who defied a deadline for leaving the Gaza Strip on their own. The army estimated about half of the 8,500 Gaza settlers remained, together with about 5,000 opponents of the withdrawal who have slipped into Gaza settlements in the past few weeks.
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