Marking thirteen years since the 2005 expulsion from northern Shomron communities, Jews returned to Sa-Nur during the night, only to be expelled again by IDF soldiers. The group, numbering about 200 persons, did not confront soldiers but agreed to leave voluntarily, having made their point by releasing statements to the media.

Among those taking part in the event were Bayit Yehudi MKs; Shul Muallem and Betzalel Smotrich. They explained that unlike Chomesh, where persons maintain a presence, Sa-Nur has remained empty, hence the decision to visit it as they did.

In a letter to the Knesset Ethics Committee, MK (Machane Tzioni) Salah Saad addressed the visit to the site by Bayit Yehudi MKs Smotrich and Muallem, appealing to the Knesset Ethics Committee to take action.

“I appeal to you because of a severe ethical violation of Knesset members,” Saad wrote to Committee Chairman MK Yitzhak Vaknin, “who came in the middle of the night to the settlement of Sa-Nur, in violation of the Disengagement Plan Law.”

“MKs from Bayit Yehudi, Shuli Muallem and Bezalel Smotrich, arrived at the site,” he said, “when they arrived as elected officials, there was a message of encouraging violations of the law and soliciting an offense.”

Saad calls on the committee to take action against them for acting as they did in their official capacity as Members of Knesset, placing citizens at risk with their actions. A similar request was sent to Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, asking him to take the appropriate action against the citizens involved in breaking the Disengagement Law.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)