JERUSALEM, April 3 (Xinhuanet) -- A senior Israeli official in charge of implementing government plan to withdraw settlements and troops from Gaza said Sunday that the evacuation will be carried out smoothly, judging by conversations he has held with settlers, the Ha'aretz daily reported.

    Yonattan Bassi, the head of Israel's Disengagement Administration, said he believes nearly 70 percent of the settlers ready for evacuation will reach agreement with his administration before the pullout begin in July.

    Meanwhile, Eliezer Hisdai, the deputy chairman of the Yesha Council of Settlements, slammed calls to disobey orders of evacuation.

    If the calls to disobey orders and to avoid service in the reserves continue, Hisdai will ask the chief of staff to draft him into the reserves as a volunteer to participate in the evacuation of settlers from Gaza and northern West Bank.

    Hisdai, a lieutenant colonel in the reserves, also warned his colleagues not to bring tens of thousands of anti-disengagement activists to Gaza if they are not certain they can control them.

    " I don't believe it will be possible to stop the (disengagement)plan," Hisdai said. "We seem to have reached the point of no return. Our responsibility as leaders is to moderate the extremists as much as possible."

    "To say we are bringing 100,000 people and we will block disengagement with our bodies, seems to me pretentious and dangerous, because there's no way in the world to control 100,000people. As leaders, we must act to prevent bloodshed."

     At a meeting of the Yesha Council last Thursday, Hisdai called on his colleagues to open a dialogue with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to avoid further evacuations, saying that those who do not do so "are burying their heads in the sand."

    The opponents of Sharon's pullout plan vowed to hinder it by bringing people to the streets despite their failure to delay or stop it in parliament. Enditem