News Brief12:17 PM

(IsraelNN.com) Israeli media have maintained an almost total blackout on police violence at Homesh. Reports that police are hitting youth and confiscating cameras that document the violence have been relegated to one-line statements on the radio and on web sites. Media were not present at the site.

Several hundred people circumvented police Sunday night and Monday morning and reached the site of the demolished Jewish community and a neighboring hilltop. They vastly outnumbered police and began building a synagogue, but police sent reinforcements and are forcibly dragging people on to buses.

Homesh supporters at the site reported that police also took bottles of water away from activists.