Central Command Chief Yehuda Fuchs signed the order allowing Israelis to immigrate to Homesh, Israel Hayom has learned. The significance of the general's signing of the order, as military commander of Judea and Samaria, is that Israelis are now officially allowed to immigrate back to the community that was evacuated nearly 18 years ago, and the end of the process that began with the repeal of the Disengagement Law in the Knesset. Recently, since the repeal of the law, the Central Command has been working on formulating plans that will allow Israelis to stay in Homesh legally, and now this is officially taking shape.
Last week, Israel Hayom reported that Defense Minister Yoav Galant had instructed the OC Central Command to sign an order that would apply and implement the law to cancel the disengagement in northern Samaria, which was approved by the Knesset two months ago. Last March, the Knesset plenum approved the second and third readings of the law to cancel the disengagement plan, by a majority of 31 Knesset members who voted in favor to 18 against. After the vote, the Knesset plenum greeted: "May we live, fulfill, and have reached this time," accompanied by applause and cheers.
Defense Minister Galant instructed Maj. Gen. to sign the order, Photo: Gideon Markowitz
Now, with the signature of the OC Central Command, Israelis are officially allowed to immigrate to the settlement of the sword and stay there. However, there is still a question about the future of sitting there, because in its current location it sits on land defined as private, because after the disengagement, then-IDF Chief of Staff Bogi Ya'alon revoked the seizure order that had allowed Israelis to stay on them. According to the plan, the yeshiva will be relocated to a nearby location defined as survey land, and thus will be fully regulated.
This is a dramatic milestone in the struggle to reverse the destruction carried out by the Israeli government as part of the Disengagement Plan and in the struggle that subsequently began to return to the destroyed communities. Hours after the Knesset approved the Disengagement Law, we accompanied Settlement Minister Orit Struk and Samaria Council Mayor Yossi Dagan to Homesh, where they declared that they intended to work to resettle the destroyed settlement.
"I swore during the expulsion that as long as Buffy breathed, I would work to return. There's hardly a week I don't cry because I remember what happened. 17 years have passed, and I still wake up at night thinking about how to return. Out of this trauma we acted and are acting. I have a moral obligation to rebuild these communities," Yossi Dagan said in the ruins of Homesh. "They said in the expulsion that the kingdom made a decision, so now the kingdom has decided to make amends. Now we are moving on to the next stage: to start planning the rebuilding of settlements in northern Samaria. We're back home."
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