2005 was the year of the disengagement from Gaza and northern Samaria. On 16 February 2005, the Knesset passed the Disengagement Plan Implementation Law. The disengagement plan was initiated by Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon and entailed an Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and four isolated settlements in northern Samaria and the unilateral evacuation of their Jewish residents and the IDF bases located at them. The evacuation of all the settlements in Gaza and northern Samaria began on 15 August 2005 and was completed on Tuesday, 23 August 2005 after only one week. Altogether 25 settlements and about 15,000 settlers were evacuated in the framework of the disengagement plan. Chomesh and Sa-Nur were the last strongholds of the disengagement. About 1,500 residents were evacuated from these two settlements. At Chomesh dozens of young girls fortified themselves on the second floor of a house in the settlement. The only access to the place was by ladders. Border policemen broke into the place after a short struggle that included the throwing of flour, paint, oil, and suspicious sorts of liquids by the girls. The soldiers had to climb to the second floor on ladders as they evacuated the girls who put up resistance. In the picture—Israeli soldiers pull a girl with handcuffs from the fortified house.