(19 Jul 2005) SHOTLIST
1. Various of withdrawal opponents at campsite
2. Various of people praying
3. Various of people at campsite
4. People praying
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Doctor Charles Weinberger, opponent of Gaza pull-out:
"This process was accomplished without taking account of the citizens' voice into it. There was never a... for every time this issue was brought to the voters it was rejected. It's true it was passed by the Knesset, but it was never passed by the people of the state of Israel, and we will not allow our land to be taken from us and be given to the Arabs who have been killing us for the last ten years."
6. Various of people at campsite
7. Police walking through campsite
8. Campers
STORYLINE
Thousands of opponents of Israel's planned Gaza pull-out will begin their push on Tuesday morning towards Jewish settlements in defiance of a police ban.
Soldiers and police scuffled with the protesters on Monday evening as they marched towards the settlements trying to stop the withdrawal.
After a two-hour standoff, settlers said they reached an agreement with security forces to spend the night in Kfar Maimon, a village just three kilometres (two miles) from their starting point and 20 kilometres (12 miles) away from their goal - the main crossing point into the Gaza settlements.
About 20,000 police and soldiers were deployed in southern Israel to block the marchers, who started out after a rally in the town of Netivot.
In an unprecedented step, police fanned out across the country and prevented protesters from boarding buses that were to take them to the demonstration.
Angry organisers called on their backers to get there somehow, and dozens started walking toward Gaza from Jerusalem, more than 100 kilometres (60 miles) away.
The main target of the settlers was Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, for decades the champion of settlement construction and expansion who suddenly changed course and proposed removing veteran settlements from the West Bank and Gaza for the first time.
Protesters warned that exiting Gaza would leave Hamas with a free hand there and encourage attacks.
Thousands of police and soldiers lined the roads between Netivot and the crossing, preparing to stop the march.
Almost all of the protesters were Orthodox Jews, illustrating the religious backing of the opposition to the removal of all 21 settlements from Gaza and four from the West Bank, set to begin in mid-August.
Rabbis have declared that no Israeli government has the right to relinquish control of any part of biblical Israel.
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