My father woke me up at around 2:30 a.m. after he heard loud banging at our front door. He then went to open our front door and a group of Israeli soldiers entered our home. They told my father they wanted to arrest me.

 

After I got up a soldier showed me some photographs of clashes between youth from the village and soldiers that took place near the village cemetery.  Then a soldier tied my hands to the front with one plastic tie which was painful. I was also blindfolded.

 

I was then taken outside. No documents were provided to us about the arrest. Outside the house I was beaten on the head. The soldiers then led me on foot for a long distance.

 

After walking for a long time I was put in the back of a military jeep and made to sit on the floor. Inside the jeep a soldier verbally abused me calling me "a son of a whore" and another soldier took a photo of me. The jeep drove to the settlement of Karmi Zur where we arrived at dawn.

 

Inside the settlement I was taken to a room and I sat on a chair. A soldier swore at me calling my mother and sister "whores". I sat on the chair until just before noon. I could not sleep. Just before noon I was taken to a military vehicle which took me to the police station in Etzion settlement. I arrived at Etzion at around noon.

 

On arrival at Etzion I was left under a shed for a couple of hours. When I tried to remove the blindfold someone slapped me. Then I was taken for interrogation at around 2:00 p.m.

 

The interrogator started to beat me as soon as I entered the room. I was still tied and blindfolded. He punched me on my side and I felt severe pain in my kidney. Then he sat me down on a chair and started to kick and slap and verbally abuse me. He called me "a son of a whore". Then he told me I had to name the boys in the photo who were throwing stones. I told him the boys were all masked and I did not know who they were. He interrogated me for about 45 minutes without informing me of my rights. Instead, he told me if I remained silent I would be convicted in court. He did not remove the tie and the blindfold until the very end. I confessed to throwing stones when I felt I had no choice.

 

After I confessed I was taken to see another interrogator who did not inform me of my rights. There was a tape recorder on the desk. He asked me to repeat what I had told the first interrogator and he recorded everything I said. I told the second interrogator I wanted a lawyer. The interrogator called my father and lied to him and told him I had given names of other boys. He also called a lawyer and allowed me to speak to him. The lawyer told me to confess and said he would come and help me afterwards. Then the second interrogator showed me documents written in Hebrew and asked me to sign them and I did because I wanted to get it over with.

 

After the interrogation I was photographed and fingerprinted. I was also searched with my underwear on. I was then taken to a cell where I was given some food. Later I was taken to Ofer prison, near Jerusalem, where I was searched again in my underwear and taken to Section 13.

 

Two days later I was taken to Ofer military court. My father was in court and the hearing was adjourned. I had six appearances in the military court, most of them took place without a lawyer because the lawyers were on strike.

 

At my last military court appearance I was sentenced in a plea bargain to three months in prison and fined NIS 4,000. I was also given a suspended sentence of three months valid for three years. I did not want to agree to the plea bargain but my father accepted it on my behalf. I did not want my father to pay the fine but he did.

 

I was released on 19 June 2017, I went home with my father. In prison I studied the alphabet which was not very useful or interesting.