Aviyah Greenblatt, 28, father of three and a Golani Brigade fighter, was arrested at 10 PM last night in his home - though he had never before been informed that he was wanted by the military police. His father Mordechai, who was expelled from his home in N'vei Dekalim three months ago and now resides in the Jerusalem Gold Hotel, said that contrary to a report in Maariv, he is not "infuriated, but rather proud that he was arrested on something like this." He told Arutz-7,
"My son told his commanders well before the disengagement process that he had lived in N'vei Dekalim since he was a boy, and that he wished to be with his family. His parents were about to be thrown out of their home, and it was natural for him to want to be with us. His commanders - the deputy regiment commander and the battalion commander - accepted this with understanding and told him not to worry."
Greenblatt has no criticism of his son's commanders, for he feels that the orders came from higher up: "It's not that they [the commanders] went back on their word, because we've heard that there were several others who were arrested like this over the past couple of days. It looks more like there's a new army policy to arrest soldiers who didn't show up."
An aide to MK Uri Ariel (pictured) said he knows of close to ten other similar cases over the past few days. MK Ariel raised the issue in the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee today, and called upon the army to release the soldiers immediately. He said that some of the arrested soldiers had received explicit permission from their commanders not to show up for duty during the expulsion.