We started [a mission of subpoenas and arrests] at night in Qabalan. The Shin Bet Security Service made a mistake with the address, we got to the wrong address. They (the man at the house to which they arrived, and the man for whom they were looking) had the same name, but it's not the guy. We ask him “Who's that on the ID?” “Oh, that's my cousin, he lives here.” [We ask him] “Come, come with us and show us where he lives.” It was about a five, 10 minute walk, in the middle of the night.

Do you give the guy time to organize and stuff or...? “Put on your shoes and come.” We took him in his nightgown over to his cousin, and enter his cousin's place. What a trip. After that, on the next arrest, we show up at some place and knock on the door, go in, the grandfather is sleeping on a bed in the passageway in the middle of the hall and he gets up, he goes: “Who’s this? Who’s this?” and, “I must see them too.” The mother tells him: “No, go to sleep,” and he goes “No, no, of course not.” And he gets up. This ancient guy, like 90 years old with a cane, very dignified. He speaks Hebrew. How long has he been here, 90 years? Way before Israel was established. He saw all the changes, he has probably been arrested a million times. We were told their son lives downstairs and that we have to grab him. We go downstairs, [the grandfather] is walking down the stairs, it’s taking him an hour. We go downstairs with the mother, I look at the company commander, “Why did he come?” By the time he gets down we'll go and then he'll have to go the whole way back up. So he gets to us and says: “You idiots, you’ve got my son, my son is in jail.”

This guy had already been arrested? Yeah, about a year back already. “You’ve got him in your jail. So what're we doing here anyway?"

What did the Shin Bet say? “Our mistake. Sorry.” It was like, “Oh! They say he's in jail. Fine.”

You turned around and left? Yes. And that guy, it took him an hour to walk back upstairs, that old man.