JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israel’s Security Cabinet approved late Tuesday night the establishment of a new Jewish community in northern Samaria, to be built east of Sa-Nur.

The new community, which is expected to include hundreds of housing units, will fall under the jurisdiction of the Shomron Regional Council and will become the 19th new community established in the area as part of the council’s “Reconnection Plan.”

The approval follows months of planning by the Shomron Regional Council and the settlement organization Amana, working in close coordination with Israel’s Settlement Administration. The proposal was advanced to the Security Cabinet by Finance Minister and Minister in the Defense Ministry Bezalel Smotrich and Defense Minister Israel Katz.

Shomron Regional Council head Yossi Dagan, who was evacuated from his home in Sa-Nur during Israel’s 2005 disengagement and recently returned to live there with his family, welcomed the decision.

“Twenty-one years ago, we made a terrible mistake by uprooting the communities of northern Samaria. Today, before our eyes, we are witnessing the correction of that historic injustice. Not only have we returned to Sa-Nur, but we are expanding it and establishing a new Jewish community alongside it, with its own official municipal status, within the coming months.”

Dagan added: “Those who didn’t want one Sa-Nur will now get two. Instead of the disengagement plan, we are implementing the Reconnection Plan together. Eastern Sa-Nur will stand firmly along the strategic Route 60, at the site where the Paratroopers Brigade training base once stood. This is the 19th new community in northern Samaria and the only proper Zionist and security response to terrorism: more construction, more communities, and a stronger Jewish presence in our ancestral homeland. The people of Israel are victorious.”

He concluded by thanking Bezalel Smotrich, Israel Katz, the members of the Security Cabinet, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for approving the initiative, as well as the Settlement Administration and the pioneers, residents, and former evacuees “who did not break and did not give up during the past 21 years.”

“Justice has prevailed. We are coming home—and this time, permanently.”