Female Israeli police officers prevent settlers from entering the Kissufim Crossing, the main entry point into Jewish settlments in the Gaza Strip,Wednesday July 13, 2005. In a step seen as a watershed moment in his disengagement plan, Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon Wednesday morning ordered the Gaza Strip closed to Israeli visitors, declaring it a closed military area in order to blunt plans by anti-pullout activists to flood the Strip with protesters.PHOTO BY Lior Mizrahi/BauBau