Protesters on Sunday evening formed a 90-kilometer-long "human chain" between the Gush Katif settlement bloc in the Gaza Strip and the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, to protest against the disengagement plan.
According to the police, some 130,000 people took part in the event, spreading out from the Nissanit settlement in Gaza to Jerusalem.
Settler leaders said Sunday that they had been overwhelmed by the response to the protest and that they expect some 800 busloads of people to help form the chain.
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"We came here to protest the program of expelling Jews from their land," said Avraham Yitzhaki, 54, from the Gaza settlement of Ganei Tal.
Read more...BTW, I'm posting this article because it's a major news even of the day, not because I support the demonstration necessarily. I support the right of peaceful demonstrations for whatever political position is taken. 
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