Hundreds of nationalists are hiking towards the destroyed site of Homesh in northern Samaria, and several tents have been erected on a nearby hill. Police are standing by in preparation to forcefully evacuate the crowd.
National Union Knesset Member Aryeh Eldad has appealed to Labor party chairman Ehud Barak to allow the rally to take place peacefully and to let hikers walk on the main roads instead of endangering themselves on side trails, several of which lead to Arab houses.