No one was injured or arrested in the incident, and both sides avoided a replay of last week's violence in Gush Katif when about 1,000 policemen forced residents of a refurbished hotel to leave Gush Katif. Israel's Mabat television show Wednesday night for the first time extensively reported allegations that government agents purposefully incited the violence in order to turn the public tide against the growing anti-evacuation movement.
Tension mounted in Homesh, one of four northern Samaria communities slated to be dismantled, after the IDF brought in bulldozers to prepare a new approach road. Residents of nearby Sa-Nur and Kedumim traveled to Homesh to join a sit-down protest in which they sat in front of the tractors and bulldozers.
The IDF declared the area a closed military zone but also stopped construction of the road. Leaders in the communities, angry over widely reported policed brutality and violation of rights of Gush Katif residents, met Wednesday night to prepare plans to resist the planned evacuation.
They also are conducting a campaign to present evidence of police brutality and incitement by government agents. Citing last week's report that anti-evacuation activists spread nails and oil on highways, leaders pointed out that there were no reports of tire blowouts or accidents. They also said it was strange that there were no witnesses and that all the media received news of the incident.
Anita Tucker, long-time resident of Gush Katif, reported violence by police who stopped the car which her son was driving. "They saw several kids inside with long ear locks, put on brass knuckles and smashed one of the windows."
Other residents reported that police grabbed and choked girls who were waiting in Gush Katif for rides to a wedding.
Tension mounted in Homesh, one of four northern Samaria communities slated to be dismantled, after the IDF brought in bulldozers to prepare a new approach road. Residents of nearby Sa-Nur and Kedumim traveled to Homesh to join a sit-down protest in which they sat in front of the tractors and bulldozers.
The IDF declared the area a closed military zone but also stopped construction of the road. Leaders in the communities, angry over widely reported policed brutality and violation of rights of Gush Katif residents, met Wednesday night to prepare plans to resist the planned evacuation.
They also are conducting a campaign to present evidence of police brutality and incitement by government agents. Citing last week's report that anti-evacuation activists spread nails and oil on highways, leaders pointed out that there were no reports of tire blowouts or accidents. They also said it was strange that there were no witnesses and that all the media received news of the incident.
Anita Tucker, long-time resident of Gush Katif, reported violence by police who stopped the car which her son was driving. "They saw several kids inside with long ear locks, put on brass knuckles and smashed one of the windows."
Other residents reported that police grabbed and choked girls who were waiting in Gush Katif for rides to a wedding.