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Israeli ministers on Sunday officially reopened Sa-Nur, a settlement in the occupied West Bank that was evacuated 20 years ago, marking the occasion with defiant declarations against Palestinian statehood and calls to resettle Gaza.Several cabinet members and lawmakers attended the ceremony near a cluster of white prefabricated homes arranged in rows on a hilltop.For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app.Excluding east Jerusalem, more than 500,000 Israelis now live in the West Bank in settlements that are illegal under international law, among some three million Palestinians.“On this exciting day, we celebrate a historic correction to the criminal expulsion from Northern Samaria,” Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said, using the Israeli biblical term for part of the West Bank.Sa-Nur’s settlers were evicted in 2005 as part of Israel’s so-called disengagement policy that also saw the country withdraw troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip.The
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