State rejects HCJ proposal to pay evacuee's rent
Dan Izenberg, THE JERUSALEM POST Mar. 2, 2006
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The state on Wednesday rejected a High Court proposal to pay the rent for 41
former residents of the Gaza Strip settlement of Elei Sinai, who left their
temporary homes in Kibbutz Karmiyeh because they were unprotected against
Kassam rocket attacks. The residents left Karmiyeh after four members of a
family were injured when a rocket fell outside their home.

Attorney Orit Koren said the state had already paid all of the rent for the
mobile homes in Karmiyeh and could not pay a second rent. But Barak said,
"The sympathy of all of us is with the petitioners. They suffered a previous
trauma because of the disengagement and we must not forget that."

Barak said the court would hand down its ruling in the next few days.