Israeli lawmaker to bring Gaza disengagement repeal bill to ministerial committee

MK Zvi Sukkot is set to present a bill on Sunday to Israel’s ministerial committee for legislation that would revoke the Gaza disengagement law and allow Jews to enter areas of the Strip again. The proposal comes 21 years after the removal of Jewish communities from Gush Katif and northern Samaria, which the article describes as a painful national trauma.

According to the report, the initiative seeks to remove the current restrictions tied to the disengagement and to apply the same kind of legal reversal already completed last year in northern Samaria, which enabled Israelis to return to Homesh. Supporters of the measure say it is intended to correct a historic injustice and erase one of the gravest wrongs in Israel’s national memory.

The key decision now rests with Justice Minister Yariv Levin, who heads the ministerial committee for legislation and must decide whether to advance the bill and give it government backing. Political sources quoted in the article believe the bill is likely to receive broad support from the right-wing camp, which sees overturning the disengagement as a moral and national obligation.

The bill’s backers argue that the move sends a message that the ancestral land cannot be surrendered and that the time has come to rectify past mistakes. They say bringing the proposal forward now marks a new stage in the struggle over the future of Gaza and the possible return of a Jewish presence to the area from which thousands of Israelis were uprooted that summer.