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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 641

Sa-Nur

Illustrative: A general view of new buildings in the Israeli settlement of Aliyah, south of Nablus in the West Bank. May 21, 2025. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
May 29, 2025, 10:34 am
Defense minister confirms government approval of 22 new West Bank settlements
Katz, Smotrich hail establishment of new communities, legalization of wildcat outposts as ‘protective wall’ for Israel, boosting ‘hold on Judea and Samaria,’ obstructing path to Palestinian state
By ToI Staff
View of the outpost of Homesh, in the West Bank, on May 29, 2023. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
May 28, 2025, 2:09 am
Security cabinet said to secretly okay establishment of 22 new West Bank settlements
Smotrich and Katz reportedly led vote last week to build new communities and legalize existing outposts, including Homesh and Sa-Nur, which were evacuated amid 2005 Gaza withdrawal
By ToI Staff
Damage to an Israeli bus is seen following a shooting attack near the settlement of Mevo Dotan, December 18, 2022. (Samaria Regional Council)
December 18, 2022, 10:35 pm
Shots fired at bus of settlers in northern West Bank; no injuries
Vehicle was returning Israelis from Hanukkah candle-lighting event at site of former settlement; local Islamic Jihad wing claims responsibility
By Emanuel Fabian
Settlers visit the evacuated settlement of Sa-Nur on July 24, 2018. (Homesh T'cheela)
November 17, 2020, 10:31 am
Dozens sneak into evacuated settlement; backers urge government to let them stay
20 families enter Sa-Nur ruins in effort to resettle northern West Bank communities abandoned along with Gaza settlements in 2005 ‘disengagement’
By ToI Staff
(From L-R) MKs Idit Silman, Orit Strock, Eti Atiya, Ofir Sofer, Amir Ohana, Osnat Mark, Yuli Edelstein, Ariel Kellner, Samaria Regional Council chairman Yossi Dagan, Rabbi of Yeshivat Homesh, Kati Shitrit, Miki Zohar and Michal Shir visit the evacuated northern West Bank settlement of Homesh on May 16, 2018. (Samaria Regional Council)
May 16, 2019, 4:27 pm
11 MKs visit evacuated settlement, declare ‘mission’ to return permanently
Settler leader heading delegation of right-wing lawmakers calls on Netanyahu to stop ‘hiding behind the Americans’ and rebuild four northern West Bank towns
By Jacob Magid
Settlers visit the evacuated settlement of Sa-Nur on July 24, 2018. (Homesh T'cheela)
July 24, 2018, 1:40 pm
Hundreds sneak into evacuated settlement, call on government to let them stay
Demonstration comes as Netanyahu continues to block legislation allowing resettlement of northern West Bank communities emptied along with Gaza in 2005 disengagement
By Jacob Magid
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on October 29, 2017. (Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool/Flash90)
November 5, 2017, 1:21 am
Netanyahu delays vote on reversing 2005 West Bank withdrawal
Sources say PM wants to consult with US before advancing bill that would permit Israelis to return to settlements razed in disengagement
By ToI Staff
Likud and Jewish Home lawmakers at a ceremony at the evacuated Sa-nur settlement in the northern West Bank. (Jacob Magid/The Times of Israel)
October 22, 2017, 2:06 pm
Ministers said to delay vote on repealing 2005 West Bank pullout
Proposed legislation would allow Israelis to return to 4 settlements, evacuated 12 years ago but still under Israeli control
By Marissa Newman
Likud and Jewish Home lawmakers at a ceremony at the evacuated Sa-nur settlement in the northern West Bank. (Jacob Magid/The Times of Israel)
August 4, 2017, 3:21 am
At ruins of evacuated settlement, hundreds demand return
Amid picnics and inflatable castles, settlers call to resurrect four northern West Bank communities evacuated as part of Gaza disengagement
By Jacob Magid
Elor Azaria in a live online broadcast, his first public comments about his trial and sentencing, on August 3, 2017. (Facebook)
August 3, 2017, 2:54 pm
In first public statement, Elor Azaria thanks supporters, says he ‘loves this country’
Twelve years on, right-wing leaders return to evacuated West Bank settlement; Netanyahu rejects ‘witch hunt’ amid reports he is suspected of bribery, fraud, breach of trust
By ToI Staff
Jewish Home MK Shuli Mualem attends a party meeting in the Knesset, January 23, 2017. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
January 23, 2017, 10:56 pm
Jewish Home MK seeks to roll back 2005 settlement withdrawal
Shuli Moalem-Refaeli to introduce bill aimed at repopulating northern West Bank settlements evacuated at time of Gaza disengagement
By Stuart Winer
A tractor grabs an Israel flag as it tears down homes in the Beit El settlement July 29, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 30, 2015, 7:40 am
US ‘deeply concerned’ about approval of new settlement homes
State Department urges Jerusalem ‘to refrain from unhelpful actions’ after Netanyahu green-lights 300 units in Beit El, Jerusalem
By Daniel Bernstein and AFP
IDF forces prepare to remove protesters from the former West Bank settlement of Sa-Nur, July 30, 2015. (Screenshot/Ynet)
July 30, 2015, 3:21 am
IDF removes protesters from ruins of West Bank settlement
Security forces block access to, from Sa-Nur; finish clearing over 200 demonstrators from site evacuated in 2005
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
Israeli security forces walk by a building in which Israeli settlers had barricaded themselves to resist an evacuation at the Jewish settlement of Beit El, near the West Bank town of Ramallah, July 28, 2015. (FLASH90)
July 29, 2015, 10:58 pm
UN, EU denounce approval of fresh settlement homes
Ban Ki-moon calls planned housing projects in Beit El and East Jerusalem ‘impediment to peace’; PLO labels move a ‘war crime’
By Daniel Bernstein and AFP
Israelis standing on top of a building in what was the Sa-Nur settlement, one of four Jewish settlements in the West Bank that was evacuated of Jewish residents in the 2005 disengagement plan, July 21, 2015. (Flash90)
July 28, 2015, 12:27 pm
Disengagement protesters reoccupy evacuated West Bank settlement
Over 200 people take up positions at Sa-Nur, whose 40 families were forcibly cleared in 2005
By Stuart Winer
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