Israeli war minister Yoav Gallant has ordered the army’s central command in the occupied West Bank to sign an order allowing Jewish settlers to return to the evacuated illegal settlement of Homesh in Nablus.
According to the Hebrew media, Gallant instructed head of the central command Yossi Fuchs to sign a decree that would allow Jewish settlers to live in the former settlement of Homesh in the northern West Bank.
Entry to Homesh, as well as three other former settlements in the northern West Bank, was previously illegal under the 2005 Gaza disengagement law, which was repealed by the Knesset in mid-March.
The new Knesset law lifted the ban on the return of Jewish settlers to the sites of four settlements that were evacuated after the Gaza pullout in 2005. These settlement are Homesh, Sa-Nur, Ganim and Kadim.
Israel’s Channel 7 said that the Israeli army started to strengthen its presence in the northern West Bank, especially in the area around Homesh, warning that such decision would have major security and political repercussions.
