Toilets lie on the kerb, trees are uprooted and roofs stripped of tiles
When Israeli soldiers come to evacuate settlers as part of the Gaza withdrawal which starts on Monday, they will find a ghost town.
While many settlers in southern Gaza's Gush Katif bloc are vowing to stay until the bitter end, Nisanit, whose residents came mostly for its high quality of life rather than because of religious ideology, is already well into the process of disappearing from the map.
The abandonment of Nisanit, northern Gaza's largest settlement, is the most tangible indication yet that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to unilaterally pull out of the 21 Gaza colonies is becoming a reality.
Proponents of the withdrawal, the first pullout from land Palestinians view as part of an envisioned state, argue that the 8,000 settlers in Gaza are so outnumbered by the 1.3 million Palestinians that they have no future. Israeli opponents view the step as a retreat that will be seen by Palestinians as a sign of weakness, while the Palestinians suspect the pullout is a ruse for Mr Sharon to consolidate Israel's hold on the West Bank.
In Nisanit, most houses are empty. The grocery store has closed, a freezer that probably held ice cream discarded in the street. Windows are missing from many of the homes. So are their red tile roofs. Toilets from dismantled bathrooms lie on the kerb.
Workmen at one house were packing lemon and orange trees they had uprooted into a truck en route to their being replanted or stored at a nursery.