The Alberta government estimated the fire has consumed an area the size of Mexico City, and insurance losses reportedly could go higher than $7 billion.
Seven years after Israel’s disengagement from the Gaza Strip, many former residents of Gush Katif no longer consider themselves part of the settler movement.
More than four years since the August 2005 removal of some 9,000 Israelis from Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip, the national trauma of the forced evacuation is firmly in the past. But for the majority of evacuees, who still do not live in permanent homes, the trauma has not ended.