Al-Quds city, Oct 18, SPA -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Monday nothing would deter him from pushing forward with his plan to pull out of the Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank. Also Monday, scattered fighting in the Gaza Strip killedat least five Palestinians. Sharon, a longtime patron of the settlements, spoke a dayafter holding a tense meeting with settler leaders thatended with battle lines drawn between the two sides. Sharon has pledged to put his "disengagement plan" to aparliamentary vote on Oct. 25 and, despite a rift in hishard-line Likud Party, he is expected to prevail with thebacking of dovish opposition parties. Sharon told reporters Monday that he is required to bringhis plan to parliament and he intends to follow through,despite pressure from the settlers. "The responsibility of managing the issues of thecountry, the responsibility of the future of the country,is not the concern of just one group. It is the concern ofthe entire nation, and this burden is placed on myshoulders, and this is how I plan to behave," he said. Settler leaders called their meeting Sunday with theirformer ally "disgraceful" and pressed for a nationalreferendum, while pledging to torpedo the withdrawal. "The prime minister is unreachable," settler leaderYehoshua Mor-Yosef told Army Radio on Monday. About 8,200 settlers live in 21 Gaza settlements, among1.3 million Palestinians. Sharon decided that the settlerscannot remain in the hostile, poverty-stricken seasideterritory. His plan also calls for evacuating four tinyenclaves in the northern part of the West Bank next summer. Sharon says his plan will increase Israel's security afterfour years of fighting with the Palestinians and helpconsolidate control over large chunks of the West Bank.--SPA1222 Local Time 0922 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/211715