By Haaretz Service and The Associated Press  
Some residents of the northern Gaza settlement of Elei Sinai said Thursday they planned to wear Nazi concentration camp prisoner uniforms when security forces evacuate them from their homes during the disengagement.
The striped uniforms, which were to include yellow Stars of David with the word "Jude" sewn on to the lapels, have already arrived.
The secretary of the Elei Sinai settlement, Yaniv Ben Hagai, condemned the move, the latest in a series of comparisons settlers have made between the disengagement and the Holocaust. Ben Hagai said most of the 400 Elei Sinai residents oppose the idea.

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Rachel Saperstein
Our community phone message system is in operation most of the day. Notices of prayer meetings, protest gatherings, organized meetings between soldiers and settlers, births, deaths, controlled explosions, ‘take cover’ because of Arab bombardment, ‘return to normal’ (or what passes for normal here)… all these and more are reported to us.
But most frightening of all was the notification last night that police and soldiers were scouring the Gush Katif communities to round up Jews who are labeled illegals – those who entered without permission, or stayed beyond the time permitted on their permits.   
“The police have no search warrants” the voice on the phone from the Local Council tells us, “don’t let them into your home.”
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