In Israel, up to 150,000 Israelis formed a human chain stretching over 55 miles from Gaza to Jerusalem to protest Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s plan to pull out of the Gaza Strip. The right-wing Yesha council of settlers organized the protest which was the largest held against the Gaza pull-out. Meanwhile in the West Bank, undercover Israeli forces assassinated six Palestinian militants while they were eating dinner in a restaurant in Tulkarem. Among those killed was the local head of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades.