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| By: Israel Insider staff |
| Published: July 19, 2007 |
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Twenty rightwing activists, mostly teenagers, were forcibly removed Thursday from the former West Bank settlement of Homesh after arriving at the site without prior coordination with police.
Forty other activists escaped from the area.
Security forces are currently preparing for other activists who are expected to march on the site Sunday.
On Tuesday, leaders of the rightwing group Homesh First said they had postponed a march to Homesh which was scheduled to take place later in the day.
The march was meant to mark the two-year anniversary since settlers were forced to evacuate by the IDF as part of the 2005 pullout from Gaza and the northern West Bank.
The group decided to postpone the event due to increased police and IDF presence in the area, though event organizers stated that the match would be rescheduled for the Jewish fast day, Tisha B'Av, which marks the destruction of the first and second temples.
Since OC Central Command Maj.-Gen. Gadi Shamni chose not to authorize the event, any participator would essentially be breaking the law and would be arrested. |
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