Their company commander rebuked them, yet they informed him that they were simply unable to take part in such a mission. The commander brought the IDF rabbi of the Central Command, Rabbi Yehuda Vizner, to convince the platoon to obey orders. He failed to convince them to change their minds
The soldiers were reassigned from manning checkpoints surrounding Gush Katif to guard duty in the region with the mission of thwarting attempts by anti-disengagement activists to sneak into the Jewish towns slated for destruction. The soldiers told their commanders that they will refuse to arrest any Jews on their way to Gush Katif.
Rabbi Yitzchak Levy (Religious Zionist Renewal) said Monday that if he was still a soldier, and was placed in the situation of manning a roadblock to Gush Katif on the Sabbath – as soldiers faced this past Sabbath - he would refuse the order.

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