Organizers of Tuesday's planned mass return to the uprooted community of Homesh sent out an alert to activists early on the

The march will go ahead within the coming week.

morning of the march in which they announced the event's postponement. Saying that the march will go ahead within the coming week, Homesh First movement leaders called the activities leading up to Tuesday "a field exercise" in facing massive police and IDF deployment. "They have power, but we have time," the notice said.

Homesh First is a grassroots movement that has set as its goal the rebuilding of the town of Homesh as a first step in rectifying the damage of Ariel Sharon's 2005 Disengagement Plan, in which Israel demolished 25 of its own towns with the stated purpose of improving its security situation. Homesh, located 18 miles east of Netanya, was one of four northern Samaria towns destroyed in the Disengagement operation.

The Tuesday morning Homesh First announcement further explained that "the government is frightened and has deployed thousands of soldiers for this national mission [of stopping the Homesh march]." In light of "the insane deployment," organizers wrote, "we have decided not to play into their hands: we will determine the time and place in which we will return and build. The return will be in the coming days; we will return and build Homesh before Tisha B'Av [a fast day marking the destruction of the First and Second Jerusalem Temples]."

The notification was publicized primarily in Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem and other towns with a high proportion of religious Zionist residents. 

Large groups of young activists, possibly hundreds, have already begun making their way to Homesh while avoiding the IDF checkpoints that have been set up throughout the area. Police and IDF soldiers have been ordered to stop the Return to Homesh march, and have already set up several makeshift roadblocks along the roads between Karnei Shomron and Kedumim. Several youths have been arrested.

Hundreds of police and soldiers spent Monday night in northern Samaria in an attempt to prevent activists from reaching the site. IDF officials said Monday night that the cost of preventing activists from reaching Homesh will be roughly NIS one million. Organizers of the event criticized the army for concentrating on disrupting the activities of right-wing

Hundreds have already begun making their way to Homesh.

activists and Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria more than those of actual enemies.

Yossi Dagan, one of the organizers of Homesh First and a former resident of the town, told Arutz Sheva Radio, "We have changed the rules of the game. We will go there when the timing is right from our perspective. By Tisha B'Av, we will reverse the mistake and return to Homesh. Our goal is to wear out the government that sees us as enemies in its insane order of priorities. ...[The] government prefers to chase settlers over chasing [Fatah terror leader] Zakariya Zubeidi and other wanted individuals."

Organizers of the Return to Homesh events called on supporters to be prepared and to listen for coming announcements.