(IsraelNN.com) "A peaceful protest," they said - but some of them were detained by police.

The cardboard dummies were hung from the bridges as if to show them jumping off the bridge. As one student later explained to Arutz-7, "We wish to portray to the Israeli public that this disengagement plan is national suicide - in terms of ethics, values and security."

The dummies-and-posters protest was held on 50 bridges, from Carmiel in the north to Eilat in the south. Fliers were handed out to drivers below, explaining why the plan to abandon the northern Shomron and Gush Katif in Gaza - involving the expulsion of some 9,000 Jews from their homes and relocating them in temporary mobile homes - is "national suicide."

Some five students were detained by police, including three near Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem. In protest of the police behavior, several Ta Katom students held an impromptu demonstration outside the Russian Compound, the police station to where the three were taken. Their mouths were taped with orange tape, as a sign of the freedom of speech that was taken from them.

The detained students were released shortly after noon.

In response to complaints that the dummies might have distracted drivers and/or represented incitement, one student told Ynet that billboard pictures of women in bikinis are more distracting. "It's time to put an end to the wild incitement by the press of every move taken by the right-wing, even when it is legitimate. As opposed to the extremist left, which throws rocks on soldiers in Bil'in, we are students who have chosen to persuade others of the justness of our cause by explaining."