Gaza Removal

Israeli forces have stormed a Gaza synagogue's rooftop where protesters were resisting the disengagement. Acid thrown on police, CNN says. Soldiers shot water canons, moved commandos onto the building by container. Most of the hundreds of protesters were from the West Band or elsewhere. Many arrests. Some injuries. Amazing TV footage.

BBC has posted an anonymous Israeli soldier's diary.

Haaretz prints an essay by the novelist and journalist David Grossman (author of See Under: Love and The Yellow Wind.) Suburban Guerrilla found the piece, which begins:

(photo by Reuters/Sebastian Scheiner)