At around 2:30 a.m. I woke up to the sound of an explosion coming from our back door. I was terrified and stayed in bed while my father got up to see what was going on. My father opened the door and about six Israeli soldiers entered our home and more remained outside. 

 

The commander asked my father for his children and my father told him his children were very young. The commander told my father to wake his children including my youngest sister, who was four months old at the time.  

 

Then we all gathered in the living room and the commander told my father he wanted to arrest me. When my father asked for the reason the commander told him the captain needed to have a word with me. My father refused to let me go with the soldiers and insisted on accompanying me. When the commander refused to allow my father to accompany me my father told him he would bring me to the police station in the morning but the commander refused. 

 

The commander did not give my parents any documents. I barely had time to put my clothes before I was taken outside where my hands were tied to the front with one plastic tie which was not painful. I was also blindfolded. The soldiers then walked me towards an intersection where military jeeps were waiting. A soldier removed the blindfold as they led me. 

 

Then I was re-blindfolded and put in the back of a military jeep where I sat on the metal floor.  A soldier asked me whether I spoke Hebrew and I told him I did not. On the way soldiers swore at me and called me “a son of a whore”. They also beat me on my head and leg while I was tied and blindfolded and I was in pain. 

 

We arrived at a location and I was taken to a shipping container. I could not tell where I was. I sat on the floor and I could not tell for how long. Then I was taken to see a doctor. The doctor removed the tie and the blindfold and asked me whether I had any illnesses. After the examination I was tied and blindfolded again. I was allowed to use the toilet and a soldier removed the tie and the blindfold when I went to the toilet. 

 

Later that morning I was taken to the police station in Binyamin settlement where I waited on a chair in a room for about two hours and then I was taken for interrogation.

 

The interrogator removed the tie and the blindfold. He was in an Israeli police uniform and spoke good Arabic. He asked me for my name and whether my father knew where I was. Then he asked me whether my father had appointed a lawyer  for me and I told him I did not know. Then he called a lawyer and allowed me to speak to him. The lawyer told me his name and told me to be patient because there was a chance I would be released. He also told me not to be afraid and that I could ask for my father to attend my interrogation. The lawyer did not say anything about my other rights. The interrogator left the room while I talked to the lawyer.

 

After I spoke with the lawyer on the phone the interrogator entered the room and asked me what I had done. I told him I had not done anything. Then he accused me of throwing stones on the road used by settlers but did not give me a specific date. I denied the accusation. He asked all these questions without informing me of my rights. He became upset and lost his temper when I denied the accusation and raised his voice at me. I think he wanted to put pressure on me to confess. Still I denied the accusation. Then he told me there were confessions against me by other boys from the village.

 

The interrogation lasted for about three hours. During this time the interrogator left the room and came back again multiple times. In the end I confessed to throwing stones because I was tired and wanted the whole thing to end. I felt it would not end unless I confessed. Then the interrogator showed me documents in Hebrew and asked me to sign them and I did without understanding what was written.

 

Then the interrogator called my father and told him to come to the police station with NIS 2,000 because he was going to release me on bail. My father came within a short period of time with the money. I think my father ended up paying NIS 1,000 and the policeman gave him a summons for me to go to court on 14 February 2019. The summons did not specify which court or who to see in court.

 

I was released in the afternoon and I went home with my father. I arrived home at around 5:00 p.m.