Sa-Nur was an Israeli settlement in the northern West Bank, just north of the Palestinian towns of Silat ad-Dhahr and Fandaqumiya, under the administrative jurisdiction of Shomron Regional Council until 2005. Prior to its demolition, Sa-Nur was home to 43 families.
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In September 2005 its 105 residents were evicted and Israel Defense Forces soldiers began dismantling Sanur as part of Israeli disengagement from Gaza.3 The demolition of Sa-Nur and Homesh marked the end of the central part of the disengagement plan.4 The only remaining structure, a synagogue, was buried.5
Attempts to rebuild
Since the demolition, religious Zionist groups have attempted to return to Sa-Nur, in order to rebuild the community. On 8 May 2008, following a permitted Independence Day rally in Homesh, a group of 150 set off at night for Sa-Nur, including many former residents.6
On 30 July 2015, marking the 10 year anniversary after the evacuation, 250 people, made up of 20 former families, attempted to resettle in Sa-Nur, before being forcibly evicted by the Israel Defense Forces.78
In late July 2018, 200 Jewish settlers, supported by Bayit Yehudi MKs Shuli Mualem and Bezalel Smotrich, revisited the area as part of a plan to challenge the Disengagement Plan which led to the settlement's dismantlement.9
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References
About the Council- general background Archived 2007-11-06 at the Wayback Machine Shomron Regional Council http://www.shomron.org.il/Index.asp?ArticleID=938&CategoryID=53&Page=1 ↩
Thousands at Homesh; Dozens Attempt to Rebuild Sa-Nur Israel National News May 9, 2008 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/126117 ↩
Q&A: The Gaza Withdrawal CTV, 12 September 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20050909182432/http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1081952201569_77361401 ↩
Israel completes settler withdrawal plan CNN, 23 August 2005 http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/08/23/west.bank.pullout/index.html ↩
"IDF 'Buries' Synagogue in Evacuated Settlement of Sa-Nur" – via Haaretz. https://www.haaretz.com/2005-09-19/ty-article/idf-buries-synagogue-in-evacuated-settlement-of-sa-nur/0000017f-e583-df5f-a17f-ffdf2a5f0000 ↩
Thousands at Homesh; Dozens Attempt to Rebuild Sa-Nur Israel National News May 9, 2008 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/126117 ↩
"Security Forces Begin Eviction in Sa-Nur". Israel National News. July 30, 2015. https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/198814 ↩
"Security forces evacuated settler families from Sa-Nur". The Jerusalem Post. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/security-forces-evacuated-settler-families-from-sa-nur-410572 ↩
Elisha Ben-Kimon, 'Settlers mark 13 years to evacuation with return to Sa-Nur', Ynet, 24 July 2018. https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5315629,00.html ↩