3000 Rampaging Wild Boars Plague The Polish Capitol Warsaw

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15766273/Up-3-000-rampaging-wild-boars-plaguing-Polands-capital-kill-sight-orders-issued-hunters.html

Authorities in Warsaw are facing mounting criticism after deploying hunters to kill thousands of rampaging wild boars plaguing the city. 

The operation, launched earlier this month, targets around 3,000 animals across the capital, including in districts such as Bemowo and Mokotów, which have seen a rise in sightings.

Specialist teams equipped with dart guns respond to reports logged on a mobile phone app, tranquilising the animals before killing them with lethal injections.

However, the methods have sparked anger after boars were killed in residential areas, including playgrounds, and their carcasses were seen being placed in wheelie bins.

The backlash prompted protests outside city hall, with hundreds of residents and animal rights activists demonstrating against the cull.

Dorota Sumińska, 69, a vet and newspaper columnist, told The Telegraph: 'What is happening in Warsaw recently is pathology and barbarism. 

'It frightens me that something like this was allowed to happen.'

City officials say the scale of the problem is unprecedented, with at least 3,000 wild boar recorded in Warsaw as of March 2026.

Authorities in Warsaw are facing mounting criticism after deploying hunters to kill thousands of rampaging wild boars plaguing the city

Edward Warchocki, a humanoid robot dubbed an 'influencer', spotted chasing off a herd of wild boars in the Polish capital

Wildlife experts attribute the surge to several factors, including the animals' growing resistance to African swine fever since 2017, as well as reduced human activity during COVID lockdowns and EU restrictions on relocating boars to forests.

The animals have also become more accustomed to urban environments and are increasingly entering the city in search of food, sometimes being fed by residents.

Some locals have criticised the decision to use lethal methods.

One resident said a recent cull in Białołęka took place outside a school for autistic children.

She told the newspaper: 'My neighbours often report encounters with wild boars because they are afraid, even though they've never actually interacted with them. The boars were sleeping under a tree. They were killed very quickly, with stun darts and then a lethal injection.

'Their determination [to kill the animals] was frightening… they should show respect when taking the life of a living creature.'

One more said they did not agree with the 'mindless killing' of animals.

Officials say growing boar populations are a wider European issue, with countries including Spain, Germany, France, and Estonia carrying out regular culls.

In Britain, wild boar are culled annually in the Forest of Dean to maintain a population of around 400.

Experts say milder winters linked to climate change and a decline in natural predators such as bears and wolves have contributed to the increase.

The animals have also become more accustomed to urban environments and are increasingly entering the city in search of food, sometimes being fed by residents

The cull has also drawn attention online after footage circulated of a humanoid robot, Edward Warchocki, appearing to chase boars through a Warsaw car park, although there are no plans for it to be used in the operation

Karol Podgórski, head of Warsaw's culling programme, defended the operation.

He told the newspaper: 'I understand the concerns of animal rights advocates, but in a situation with so many conflicts between wild boars and people, we, as authorities, must take steps that are not liked by part of society.'

He added that the number of animals justified the measures and said non-lethal options are used where possible.

'Another issue is that wild boars also cause damage in the city. They dig up lawns, destroy fences, attack dogs and damage cars. And damage caused by wild boars is not covered by insurance,' he said.

The cull has also drawn attention online after footage circulated of a humanoid robot, Edward Warchocki, appearing to chase boars through a Warsaw car park, although there are no plans for it to be used in the operation.

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15766273/Up-3-000-rampaging-wild-boars-plaguing-Polands-capital-kill-sight-orders-issued-hunters.html

How USA Destroyer Shot Out Engine Room of Iranian Blockade Runner

https://www.businessinsider.com/new-details-how-us-destroyer-shot-engine-iran-blockade-runner-2026-4

Top general shares new details on how a US destroyer shot out the engine of an Iran blockade runner

     USS Spruance

• An Iranian-flagged cargo ship tried to bypass the US blockade in the Arabian Sea
• To stop the ship, which ignored warnings, a US destroyer fired nine rounds into its engine room.
• The top American general shared new details about the operation 
• A US Navy guided-missile destroyer fired nine "inert" rounds into the engine room of an Iranian-flagged cargo vessel trying to evade the American military blockade in the Arabian Sea.

• Air Force Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, shared new details about the blockade incident, a rare use of force by the Navy against a non-combat vessel.

  Since the US launched its blockade of maritime traffic going in or out of Iranian ports earlier this month, 34 ships have turned around at the direction of American forces. However, one vessel did not comply with those orders, Caine told reporters at a briefing.

  M/V Touska, an Iranian-flagged cargo vessel, was sailing in the north Arabian Sea, heading toward the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas, when it was intercepted by the Navy destroyer USS Spruance.

  The Spruance approached the Touska at around 4 a.m. EST (middle of the day locally). The warship's crew issued multiple warnings to the Iranian-flagged vessel, informing the vessel that it was sailing in violation of the blockade and directing it to turn around, Caine said.

• The Touska ignored multiple Navy warnings over a six-hour period before the Spruance "executed a series of preplanned, carefully calibrated escalation options, including firing five warning shots," Caine said, adding that the cargo ship still didn't comply. US commanders then "authorized disabling fire" against the cargo ship.

  The Spruance warned the Touska's crew to abandon the engine room, and at around 9 a.m. EST (late afternoon in the north Arabian Sea), the US destroyer fired "nine inert rounds" from its 5-inch MK 45 gun into the engine room, disabling the vessel.

  The 127 mm Mk 45 deck gun, standard on the Navy's Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, fires a range of ammunition types tailored to different missions, including high-explosive rounds for direct impact, airburst, and area effects, as well as illumination and inert practice rounds.

  

  USS Spruance issued multiple warnings to M/V Touska before opening fire.  US Central Command

  The large gun's autoloader holds about 20 ready rounds, which can be fired in roughly a minute at maximum rate, with additional ammunition supplied from the ship's larger magazine below deck. The use of inert rounds in an engagement like the one over the weekend between the Spruance and Touska prioritizes control and safety over outright destruction.

  The tactic is intended to target the ship's propulsion system to allow boarding while minimizing danger to the crew.

  Hours after the Spruance shot out the engine room, US Marines flew by helicopter to the Touska and boarded the ship by rappelling down onto the deck. American forces have the vessel and its crew in custody.

  US forces have also boarded two vessels transporting Iranian oil in the Indian Ocean this week.

  More than 17 US Navy warships and over 100 aircraft — including fighter jets, helicopters, and surveillance planes — are involved in enforcing the US blockade of Iranian ports, which started on April 13 and stands to reduce oil revenue critical to Tehran's struggling economy.

  The blockade is occurring alongside a US operation to clear Iranian mines from the Strait of Hormuz.

  US forces destroyed most of Iran's naval mines during Operation Epic Fury, but Tehran likely placed some in or near the Strait during the war, a defense official told Business Insider. A combination of crewed and uncrewed assets is working to clear the strategic waterway.

  President Donald Trump ordered the Navy to destroy any boat, including Iran's fast-attack boats, laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz.

  Meanwhile, a third US aircraft carrier strike group entered the area of responsibility for US Central Command, which oversees American forces in the Middle East, bringing additional firepower to the region amid the tenuous ceasefire between Washington and Tehran.

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Analysis of Israeli Supreme Court

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/426027

The price of Israel’s judicial tyranny

The court and a legal bureaucracy - that were never elected -increasingly treat democratic choice itself as a dangerous force to be contained by a permanent enlightened class. And the outrage is growing.

The hearing is over. The threats were not carried out in full. National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was not thrown out of office as Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara wished despite it not being within her purview. But anyone tempted to breathe even half a sigh of relief has missed the deeper scandal.

Israel’s High Court of Justice has now made unmistakably clear that it sees itself as entitled to sit in judgment not only over laws, regulations and administrative procedures, but over the composition, direction and practical freedom of an elected government. The court may have stopped short, for now, of ordering Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to fire Ben-Gvir. Yet it still moved to narrow the minister’s operational latitude and pushed for a renewed arrangement, brokered through the attorney general, to limit his involvement in "sensitive" policing matters, appointments and law-enforcement decision-making.

That is not restraint in the ordinary democratic sense. It is the tyranny of judicial rule strategically advancing by increments.

The issue is not whether one likes Ben-Gvir. One may support him, oppose him or distrust him entirely. That is beside the point. In any functioning democracy, the identity of ministers is first and foremost a political question. Ministers are chosen by elected leaders who answer to voters. Judges are not supposed to function as a supervisory politburo hovering above the electorate, deciding which ministers may remain in office, under what constraints, and on what judicially approved terms.

And yet that is precisely the direction in which Israel’s legal establishment has been dragging the country for decades.

This did not begin yesterday. It is the long, poisonous harvest of the Aharon Barak revolution. Barak’s famous doctrine that “everything is justiciable" was never merely a jurisprudential observation. It was an imperial manifesto. Once everything becomes justiciable, nothing remains outside judicial appetite. Cabinet appointments, coalition agreements, military tactics, police policy, administrative discretion, public morality, national security judgments - all of it becomes potential fodder for legal supervision by a class that long ago ceased seeing itself as interpreter and began seeing itself as superordinate ruler.

That is the real constitutional crisis in Israel. Not the one endlessly invoked by the same people on the left who cheer every judicial incursion into the powers of elected officials on the right. Not the melodramatic slogans about “saving democracy" deployed whenever the "unenlightened" rabble protest judges seizing more power and ministers losing more authorities. The real crisis is that a court and a legal bureaucracy that were never elected increasingly treat democratic choice itself as a dangerous force to be contained by a permanent enlightened class.

And then, with breathtaking but already unsurprising hypocrisy, the very people who fuel this crisis present themselves as guardians of democracy and the rule of law against the forces of extremism and the unacceptable choices of the primitive electorate.

Listen carefully to the rhetoric of Israel’s self-appointed defenders of democracy. Every effort by elected officials to reassert authority over policy is hotly denounced as authoritarian. Every attempt to draw boundaries around judicial intervention is loudly branded a coup. Every effort to restore the primacy of voters over jurists is indignantly described as the end of the rule of law. But when judges and legal officials push deeper and deeper into the functioning of government, suddenly we are told this is moderation, constitutionalism and enlightenment.

What they call “checks and balances" has become, in practice, one-directional political strangulation. The checks nearly always fall on the same side. The balances nearly always tilt in the same direction. The voters are permitted to choose, but only within “enlightened" parameters set by a legal caste that reserves the final word for itself.

Ben-Gvir’s case lays this bare. The attorney general argued for his removal. The court did not go that far. But even in declining the most dramatic step, it reinforced the principle that unelected legal actors may continue negotiating, supervising and restricting the powers of an elected minister in the heart of his ministry.

What kind of democracy is that? One in which ministers govern only so long as the juristocracy is willing to tolerate the terms of their governance?

This is no longer merely judicial review. It is an anti-democratic pretension to rulership.

And there is a price for it.

The first price is governmental paralysis. A country at war, under internal strain, facing security threats on multiple fronts, cannot function coherently when every major decision is liable to be converted into a petition and every petition into an opportunity for judicial management.

The second price is moral confusion. Citizens are taught that their votes matter greatly, except when they do not. They are told they live in a democracy, except that the most consequential questions may be revised by officials they never chose and cannot remove.

But the third and deepest price is the erosion of legitimacy.

A court has no electorate and no independent democratic mandate. Its real power rests on public confidence, on a broad willingness to believe that however imperfect its rulings may be, it is at least trying to apply law rather than ideology. The more aggressively the court inserts itself into politics, the more it squanders that reserve. The more it behaves like a ruling class, the more Israelis will see it as one.

People do not trust tyrants - and they do not like being tyrannized.

That is the court’s great self-inflicted wound. In its relentless appetite for control, it is consuming the very legitimacy on which its authority depends. Every selective invocation of “reasonableness," every elastic theory of standing, every intervention that somehow always lands on the same side of the political divide teaches the public to see not neutral judges but partisan governors in robes.

The public is not stupid. It sees who is almost always restrained, who is almost always blocked, and which camp repeatedly benefits from judicial intervention. It sees that the so-called enlightened camp screams “constitutional crisis" whenever elected leaders push back, even as it actively foments precisely such a crisis by encouraging the judiciary to invade domains that do not belong to it.

That is why the outrage is growing. Not because Israelis have suddenly ceased caring about law, but because millions of them increasingly suspect that what is being defended in the name of law is in fact the political supremacy of a narrow elite that no longer trusts the people.

A Jewish and democratic state cannot endure indefinitely under judicial tyranny. It needs a court that is strong but bounded, independent but not sovereign, respected but not worshiped. It needs judges who understand that their role is to interpret the law, not to domesticate democracy.

The Ben-Gvir affair is not the end of this story. It is another chapter in the long campaign to subordinate the will of Israeli voters to the supervisory authority of unelected legal guardians. The court may not have fired him. This time. But by asserting again that it may police the boundaries of elected power from above, it has reminded Israelis of the heavy price they are being asked to pay: a price in governance, a price in trust, and above all a price in the legitimacy of the court itself.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/426027

Dershowitz quits Democrat Party

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-893794

Alan Dershowitz quits Democratic Party, calling it ‘most anti-Israel party in US history’

The announcement formalized a political evolution for Dershowitz, who defended Trump during his first impeachment and has increasingly broken with Democrats over Israel in recent years.

Alan Dershowitz, the prominent pro-Israel attorney whose clients have included US President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, announced on Monday that he was leaving the Democratic Party and registering as a Republican.

Describing himself as a “lifelong Democrat,” Dershowitz wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that he had decided to “bite the bullet and register as a Republican,” citing Democratic support for an arms embargo on Israel last week and the Michigan Senate candidate Abdul el-Sayed’s anti-Israel rhetoric.

“There is no denying that the hard left, anti-Israel wing of the Democratic Party has moved from the fringe to the mainstream,” Dershowitz wrote, adding that “Republicans have their own antisemitic fringe, but for now it remains a fringe.”

The political evolution of Alan Dershowitz

The announcement formalized a political evolution for Dershowitz, who defended Trump during his first impeachment and has increasingly broken with Democrats over Israel in recent years.

In 2021, Dershowitz nominated Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, and Avi Berkowitz, Trump’s top Middle Eastern envoy during his first administration, for the Nobel Peace Prize over their hand in shaping the Abraham Accords.

US President Donald Trump listens, as his son-in-law Jared Kushner speaks, during the inaugural Board of Peace meeting at the US Institute of Peace in Washington, DC, US, February 19, 2026. (credit: KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS)

Dershowitz — who has recently faced scrutiny over his ties to Epstein, and previously denied allegations of sexual misconduct made by one of Epstein’s accusers — panned the Democratic Party as the “most anti-Israel party in U.S. history” in the op-ed.

“I believe that the Democratic Party’s hostility to Israel represents a deeper and more dangerous shift away from the center and toward a radical approach that is bad for America and the free world,” Dershowitz wrote, adding that he intended to “work hard to prevent the Democrats from gaining control of the House and Senate.”

Dershowitz’s comments are in line with Trump’s statements about Jews and the Democratic Party. He has repeatedly expressed amazement at how any Jews could vote for the Democrats, considering his own record when it comes to Israel.

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-893794

Robot Warfare Against Hezbollah

https://www.jpost.com/defense-and-tech/article-893843

IDF robot wars against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon

The IDF has ramped up its use of robots in warfare against Hezbollah

     Hezbollah Weapons Seized by IDF in South Lebanon

The IDF has escalated the use of robots in warfare against Hezbollah in Bint Jbail, it recently reported.

The robots are being used to speed up the pace of destroying Hezbollah's weapons infrastructure, given that it is unknown how long diplomatic developments will allow the military to operate in southern Lebanon, the IDF said.

Yahalom, the commando unit of the IDF Combat Engineering Corps, has placed robots in Hezbollah tunnels and other hard-to-reach areas. Photos taken by the robots have sped up the process for destroying the terrorist group’s long-term infrastructure, the IDF said.

This is not the first time the IDF has used robots in war.

The Israel-Hamas War in 2023-2025 was the first-ever robotics war, according to Col. (ret.) Yaron Sarig, head of the AI and Autonomy Program Executive Office of MAFAT within the Defense Ministry.

“This is the first robotics war,” he said last December. “In this conflict, we have mobilized our entire defense ecosystem and deployed tens of thousands of autonomous systems across the battlefield – from drone swarms to agile ground robotics distributed across vast areas.”

Although remotely controlled drones and some other systems have been used for a longer period of time, thousands of kilometers of the invasion in Gaza were carried out by robotic systems, Sarig said at the International Defense Tech Summit sponsored by the Defense Ministry’s Directorate of Defense Research and Development and Tel Aviv University’s Yuval Ne’eman Science, Technology and Security Workshop.

Robots used during Israel-Hamas War to locate tunnels

The robotic systems have become much more diverse and standardized, he said, adding that they are being deployed in much higher volumes to assist with exploring Hamas tunnels instead of risking soldiers’ lives from doing so.

In addition, remote vehicles were used to enter new areas above ground to crash into Hamas positions or to intercept and spring ambushes, enabling soldiers to know where concealed Hamas fighters were located, Sarig said.

Moreover, robots were used with artificial intelligence to improve the quality of detection and tracking of Hamas terrorists in the field on a much broader and more advanced level, he said.

“The AI and Autonomy PEO, working in coordination with the IDF, has accelerated innovative developments from start-ups, defense contractors, and research institutions, with the goal of integrating them into the operational theater and maintaining our relative advantage on land, in the air, and at sea,” Sarig said.

“We are only at the beginning of this revolution,” he said. “In the coming years, driven by operational necessity, we will significantly expand our robotic capabilities. Robotics serves as a critical bridge to the world of AI, which, looking forward, will be integrated into every weapon system and into the operational capability of every soldier.”

During the Iran War last June and in its aftermath, Israel managed to carry out multiple revolutions, regarding drones and using robots to speed up air-defense interceptor production, the Defense Ministry reported last July.

Moreover, greater integration of robots and automated services into the production process of Arrow 2 and 3 interceptors has tremendous potential to reduce the costs of each interceptor so that Israel can purchase a larger number in the future than it has in the past, ministry officials said at the time.

https://www.jpost.com/defense-and-tech/article-893843

Sa-Nur Restablished in Samaria after 21 Years

https://www.timesofisrael.com/west-bank-settlement-of-sa-nur-reestablished-21-years-after-its-evacuation/

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-893582

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/425724

Israeli officials attend Sa-nur settlement reestablishment ceremony

Samaria Regional Council Chairman Yossi Dagan, who was among the residents evacuated from Sa-Nur in 2005, was among the 16 families who took up residence anew in the settlement on Sunday.

The Sa-Nur settlement was reestablished in the West Bank on Sunday, more than 20 years after it was evacuated as part of Israel’s Disengagement Plan, in a ceremony attended by Knesset members, local settler activists, and cabinet members.

Samaria Regional Council Chairman Yossi Dagan, one of the residents removed from the settlement in 2005, was among the 16 families who moved onto the land on Sunday.

Cabinet ministers, members of Knesset, local politicians, and hundreds of settler activists celebrated the reestablishment and repopulation of the settlement of Sa-Nur in the northern West Bank on Sunday, nearly 21 years after it was evacuated in a unilateral withdrawal aimed at Palestinian self-government.

Samaria Regional Council Chairman Yossi Dagan, who was among the residents evacuated from Sa-Nur in 2005, was among the 16 families who took up residence anew in the settlement on Sunday.

“Today we are making history in Samaria and effectively abolishing the terrible crime of expulsion from northern Samaria,” he said during the ceremony.

“We have proven that it is possible to turn back the clock, to right an injustice, even if it seems that all is lost.”

Dagan was forced to leave his home after former prime minister Ariel Sharon’s government ordered that Israeli homes be removed from the Gaza Strip, known as Gush Katif, and the northern West Bank settlements of Homesh, Sa-Nur, Ganim, and Kadim.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that the “historic correction” should be marked by a “national holiday,” adding that the move was “killing the idea of the Palestinian state.”

There are plans – currently awaiting approval – to see 126 housing units erected in Sa-Nur.

Defense Minister Israel Katz, speaking at the ceremony, repeated earlier promises that the government was working to legalize 140 outposts. The renewed promise comes a month after 10 families repopulated Homesh.

In May last year, the government approved the establishment of 22 new settlements in the West Bank, following the repeal of the Disengagement Law in specific areas.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-893582

‘Killing the idea of a Palestinian state’: West Bank settlement of Sa-Nur reestablished

21 years later, Smotrich calls step ‘historic correction to sinful expulsion from northern Samaria’ under Disengagement plan

Samaria Regional Council Chairman Yossi Dagan (center), Defense Minister Israel Katz, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (second on Dagan's right) and numerous other cabinet ministers, MKs and other dignitaries cut a ribbon to celebrate the reestablishment of the Sa-Nur settlement, April 19, 2026. (Roi Hadi)

Cabinet ministers, members of Knesset, local politicians, and hundreds of settler activists celebrated the reestablishment and repopulation of the settlement of Sa-Nur in the northern West Bank on Sunday, nearly 21 years after it was evacuated under the Disengagement Plan.

Samaria Regional Council Chairman Yossi Dagan, who was one of the residents evacuated from Sa-Nur in 2005, was one of the 16 families who took up residence anew in the settlement on Sunday.

Speaking at the ceremony, Defense Minister Israel Katz repeated previous promises that the government is working on legalizing 140 illegally established farming outposts around the West Bank.

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich described the reestablishment of Sa-Nur as a “national holiday” and a “historic correction” to the “sinful expulsion from northern Samaria,” in reference to the four settlements in the northern West Bank, including Sa-Nur, that were evacuated under the Disengagement, which also saw Israel dismantle all its settlements in Gaza and pull out of the Strip.

“On this moving day, we are honored to make a historic correction to the sinful expulsion from northern Samaria,” said Smotrich. “We are abolishing the disgrace of expulsion, killing the idea of ​​the Palestinian state, and returning to the settlement of Sa-Nur. This is a day of celebration for the settlement movement and a national holiday for the State of Israel.”

In December, Israel expropriated 500 dunams of private land in order to build a six-kilometer bypass road to reach Sa-Nur without passing through Palestinian villages.

Samaria Regional Council Chairman Yossi Dagan (right) moves into the newly re-established settlement of Sa Nur, April 19, 2026. (Roi Hadi)

Under the Disengagement Plan, former prime minister Ariel Sharon’s government evacuated all the Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip, along with Homesh, Sa-Nur, Ganim, and Kadim in the northern West Bank.

Both aspects of the Disengagement Plan were severely traumatic for the settler movement and the religious Zionist community more broadly.

Smotrich, during Sunday’s event, also called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to order the IDF to prepare for a “full occupation” of Gaza and to reestablish settlements there as well.

The current government paved the way for reestablishing the settlements in the northern West Bank in March 2023, when it repealed legislation that had enacted the evacuation of the four settlements and had, until that time, prohibited Israelis from living there.

In May 2025, the security cabinet approved the establishment of 22 new West Bank settlements, including Homesh and Sa-Nur, and in December, it approved the establishment of another 19 settlements, including Ganim and Kadim.

A kindergarten was opened in Homesh in September for families already living in the settlement, and 10 families formally repopulated Homesh last month.

In recent days, prefabricated homes were constructed in Sa Nur for the 16 families taking up residence in the new settlement, and the families transferred their belongings from their old homes to Sa-Nur on Sunday.

Plans have been submitted for the construction of 126 housing units in Sa-Nur, although they are yet to be approved, necessitating the erection of the prefabricated homes to enable the repopulation of the settlement ahead of the often lengthy planning approval and construction process.

“Today we are making history in Samaria and effectively abolishing the terrible crime of expulsion from northern Samaria,” Dagan said during the ceremony, which was attended by several hundred people.

“We have proven that it is possible to turn back the clock, to right an injustice even if it seems that all is lost.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/west-bank-settlement-of-sa-nur-reestablished-21-years-after-its-evacuation/

Smotrich In Sa-Nur: Conquer Gaza and settle it

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich laid out his vision for Israel’s ongoing multi-front campaign during a speech reopening the town of Sa-Nur in northern Samaria.

Smotrich at Sa-NurPress Release

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich laid out his vision for Israel’s ongoing multi-front campaign during a speech reopening the town of Sa-Nur in northern Samaria.

“Those criticizing us from the left mean the final political step they are accustomed to - one of surrender and defeat that erases the military achievements.. We must be advancing a political step of victory that cements the military achievements and expands the state’s borders as defensible boundaries."

Sharpening his message, he declared: “Instead of handing territory to the enemy - take territory from the enemy."

Smotrich called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to act immediately against Hamas: “I call on the prime minister to order the IDF to prepare immediately for the full conquest of the Gaza Strip, to establish Israeli control over all the territory of the Strip, and to establish Israeli settlement in it. Without settlement, there will be no security."

“For a hundred years it has been proven - where the plow passes, the border and security follow. The war must end in an expansion of the State of Israel’s borders."

The event also marked the return of Israeli families to Sa-Nur, with 16 families moving into mobile homes at the site. Among them was Samaria governor Yossi Dagan, who had been evicted from the settlement in 2005. At the ceremony, he described the moment as “a significant step - personally, nationally, and emotionally."

Defense Minister Israel Katz addressed the gathering as well, focusing on Israel’s northern front. He said the IDF is operating “to a depth of 10 kilometers inside Lebanese territory in order to prevent anti-tank fire and raids on northern communities. We instructed the IDF to act with full force, from the ground and from the air, even during the ceasefire."

Katz outlined Israel’s objectives regarding Hezbollah, stating: “The supreme goal is to disarm Hezbollah and remove the threat to the northern communities." He warned that “if the government of Lebanon continues to fail to meet its commitments - the IDF will do so. We promised security to the residents of the north."

He also shared a personal reflection, noting: “As a paratrooper, Sa-Nur base was the place where I began my path in the IDF. This is an important closing of a circle for me."

Katz further announced a major infrastructure initiative, saying a plan worth NIS 350 million would be implemented to relocate and strengthen IDF bases in Judea and Samaria, calling it part of a broader effort to reinforce Israel’s long-term security posture.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/425724