Israeli forces have evacuated more than 85 percent of Gaza's Jewish settlers after nearly 40 years of occupation and all should be out by Monday, police said on Saturday.
Following three days of forced evacuations, during which settlers were carried weeping from their homes and protesters pulled screaming from synagogues by unarmed soldiers, only four of the 21 settlements in the Gaza Strip remain.
The removal of settlements is the first from land that Palestinians want for a state under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan for "disengagement" from conflict, backed by Washington as a possible step to peace.
Police spokesman Avi Zelba said 85 percent of the houses in Gaza that were once home to 8,500 settlers were now empty. Some 1.4 million Palestinians live in Gaza's densely populated cities and refugee camps.
There were no evacuations on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath. Security forces hope to clear three remaining settlements in Gaza's main Gush Katif settlement bloc on Sunday and outlying Netzarim on Monday, before turning attention to two of four West Bank settlements that are also due to be evacuated.