From AP, from Gaza: “At the isolated Morag settlement, hundreds of people blocked troops at the gate. One man, identified by Israeli media as Liron Zeidan, burst into tears as he pleaded with officers not to remove him from his home.

“‘I am not your enemy. I served as an officer under you,’ the man told Brig. Gen. Erez Zuckerman, commander of the army unit waiting at the gate.

Zuckerman listened and wiped sweat off his brow, then hugged the young man. ‘We love you, you are part of us,’ he told the assembled settlers.”