Israel has announced the evacuation of settlers from the Gaza Strip and from four small West Bank settlements has been completed ahead of schedule. The Army is estimating that it evacuated 15,000 Israelis over the past week–6,000 of them were non-residents who had traveled to the settlements to protest the pull out. On Tuesday, 31 police officers and soldiers, as well as 11 civilians, were injured during the evacuation of two settlements in the West Bank.