JENIN, May 30, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli Army Minister Israel Katz and Yossi Dagan, head of Israel’s so-called Shomron Settlement Council in the northern West Bank, broke today into the evacuated site of Sa-Nur, a former Israeli colony that was evacuated in 2005, located near the town of Jaba’, south of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank.

WAFA correspondent reported that an Israeli military force, accompanied by two helicopters, stormed the area, with helicopters landing in a plain near the site. Israeli soldiers also set up a checkpoint at the entrance to the nearby town of Ajja, where they searched vehicles and restricted movement.

The Sa-Nur settlement was among several illegal colonies in the northern West Bank—along with Homesh, Ganim, Kadim, and the Dotan military base—that were evacuated in 2005 under the Israeli disengagement plan.

According to Israeli media, Katz used the incursion to deliver a political message, saying: "Expanding settlements in the West Bank is a message to [French President] Macron and his friends. They can recognize a Palestinian state on paper, but that paper will end up in the trash bin of history. Settlement will grow, and Israel will prosper. Do not threaten us with sanctions—we will not kneel, and we will not surrender to threats."

The provocative visit follows the Israeli Security Cabinet’s recent approval of a plan to establish 22 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, including reinstating former settlements like Sanur.

The plan includes formalizing the legal status of nine existing colonial outposts and creating new settlements in isolated areas deep within the West Bank, such as Mount Ebal in Nablus and other locations in the northern West Bank.

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