Jewish settlers plan to hold a march in the north of the West Bank on Wednesday to mark the 55th anniversary of Israeli independence, public radio said this afternoon.
The 15-kilometre march has not been authorised by the Israeli army, who will aim to prevent it for security reasons, the radio said.
The Settlers Council of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) - the settlers' main political body - for its part called on them to obey army instructions and not take part in the march, it added.
The demonstration is being organised by the "headquarters of Eretz Israel," the term used by settlers which describes the land suppposedly granted by God to the Jewish people, including the West Bank.
The organisers said the march would begin near a settlement by the northern West Bank town of Nablus and finish near another settlement further north.
Around 220,000 settlers live at roughly 160 sites in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, along with 12 neighborhoods that were established in annexed east Jerusalem after 1967 and are home to another 200,000 or more Israelis.