Construction masterplan for formerly-evacuated West Bank settlement gets preliminary ok
The Times of Israel••world
Key Points:
- The Higher Planning Committee of the Civil Administration granted preliminary approval for a new masterplan to build 126 housing units in the re-established Sa Nur settlement in northern Samaria, West Bank, with final approval expected within two months.
- Sa Nur was one of four settlements evacuated in 2005 under the Disengagement Plan to facilitate Palestinian territorial contiguity, but the current Israeli government has repealed evacuation laws and formally approved re-establishing these settlements.
- Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who oversees the Civil Administration, praised the approval as correcting the "disgrace of the expulsion" and emphasized expanding Israeli sovereignty in the West Bank to prevent the creation of a Palestinian state.
- The government has aggressively expanded settlements over
