JERUSALEM, June 2 (Xinhuanet) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced Wednesday that he was determined to implement his full disengagement plan by the end of 2005 as scheduled, despite the opposition of some of his ministers, Israel Army Radio reported.

    "By the end of 2005, there will not be one Jew remaining in the Gaza Strip," Sharon told the Knesset (parliament)'s Foreign Affairsand Defense Committee.

    Settlers' homes will be demolished and synagogues will be disassembled and rebuilt in other places, he said.

    But Sharon's aides were later quoted by the radio as saying thatthe approval for the plan would be completed by the end of 2005, and not the implementation itself.

    During his speech, the prime minister also said the disengagement plan would include a Jordanian presence on the West Bank as well as greater Egyptian security involvement in the Gaza Strip when Israel has withdrawn from the area.

    Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 War, and the Gaza Strip from Egypt.

    Sharon said a compromise proposal presented by Immigrant Absorption Minister Tzipi Livni regarding the disengagement plan was "interesting" and very similar to his own plan.

    According to Livni's proposal, the government will vote on the full disengagement plan, but the decision will include a clause that the evacuation of settlements will be conditioned on government ratification.

    Emerging from Wednesday's meeting, Sharon vowed to reporters that the plan will pass a vote in the cabinet on Sunday, despite opposition from Likud ministers and rightist parties.

    Rumors continued to fly that Sharon might ensure a majority in the cabinet by either firing ministers or by widening the cabinet. Enditem