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(IsraelNN.com) The central ceremony marking the 4th anniversary of the expulsion from Gush Katif and northern Shomron is being held Tuesday evening, near the former main entrance to Gaza.

Thousands of people, including many who never lived in any of the 25 destroyed Jewish communities, are expected to be in attendance.

Four years after the Disengagement/expulsion, nearly all of the deported families still do not have permanent housing. Just this very week, groundbreaking began for one of the new towns to be built for the expellees – Mirsham (Neta), between Kiryat Gat and southern Judea.

Similar earthmoving works began in recent months for the expellees from two or three other communities, while hundreds of other displaced residents are not even at that stage. Instead, they continue to live in the hated pre-fab homes known as “caravillas” –2-3 times smaller than the homes some of them built in Gush Katif.

40 Families: We Can No Longer Afford to Build
Ironically, some 40 families say they will not be able afford to move out of the caravillas when the time comes. They have asked to buy the structures from the government and have them moved to the site of their future homes.

The reason for their seemingly strange request is that the compensation money the government gave them has run out, and they now have no money to build a new home.