I knew Israeli soldiers were in my village so I could not sleep. At around 2:30 a.m. I could hear the soldiers in my neighbourhood. I looked out the window and I saw soldiers walking towards a house down the street. I relaxed a bit but about a minute later I heard loud banging at our front door and loud voices swearing at us and telling us to open up.

 

My father went to open the front door and about 12 soldiers entered our home. Three of the soldiers wore masks and they were accompanied by two female soldiers.

 

A soldier asked my father to name all his children and to bring them to the living room. When my father named me they immediately tied my hands to the front with one plastic tie which was very painful. I was also blindfolded before being taken out of our house. All of this happened in less than five minutes. They did not give us any documents but when my father asked them for reasons the commander said they just wanted to question me and if they find nothing they would send me home.

 

Once outside I was put in the back of a military jeep where I sat on a seat. The jeep drove to the nearby military base where I was left on a chair until around 7:30 a.m. I asked them to loosen the tie and a soldier replaced it with three plastic ties loosely tied to the front. I also asked for water and they brought me some.

 

During this time the commander phoned my father and summoned him to the military base. When my father arrived they gave him a document written in both Hebrew and Arabic saying they were taking me to Etzion police station for interrogation.

 

At around 7:30 a.m. I was taken to the police station in Etzion settlement where I was put in a courtyard. Shortly afterwards I was transferred to Ofer prison, near Jerusalem, where I waited in the jeep outside the gate until around noon. Then I was taken back to Etzion. I arrived back at Etzion at around 1:00 p.m. and I was immediately taken for interrogation.

 

As soon as I entered the interrogation room the interrogator slapped me while I was still tied and blindfolded. I was in shock because I wasn’t expecting it. Then he told me I had to confess or else. He threatened to arrest my father if I did not confess. He did not inform me of any rights.

 

I asked the interrogator to remove the blindfold and he did. He wore civilian clothes and had a tape recorder on his desk. Then he accused me of throwing stones and showed me some photographs. I denied the accusation and told him the photos were not authentic. Then he pointed to one of the photos and told me it was me holding a slingshot. I continued to deny the accusation. Then he banged the table and swore at me calling my mother and sister "whores". He interrogated me for about an hour.

 

After about an hour the interrogator took me to a courtyard for about 10 minutes and then I was taken to see another interrogator. The second interrogator was much calmer and had a tape recorder. He called my father and then called a lawyer and allowed me to speak to him. The lawyer told me not to confess and not to be afraid. The interrogator also gave me a document written in Arabic saying something about the right to silence but I did not really understand what it meant. The interrogator asked me to sign the document and I did.

 

Then the pulled out another document and told me a boy had confessed against me. He also showed me a photograph. I then confessed to throwing two stones which missed. The second interrogation lasted for about an hour. In the end he showed me documents in Hebrew and told me it was my statement and asked me to sign them and I did.

 

Then I was taken into another room where two people were sitting. They showed me photographs of me and two other friends from the village and wanted me to identify them. It was a selfie of me and my friends doing nothing and I decided to give my friends’ names because we were not doing anything wrong. Then they showed me a satellite map of the village and pointed to some houses and asked me to tell them who lived in the houses but I refused. This lasted for about 45 minutes.

 

Then I was blindfolded again and taken to the courtyard where I sat on the ground. Two hours later I was transferred to Ofer prison where I was strip searched and taken to Section 13.

 

On 26 July 2017, I was taken to the police station in the settlement of Kiryat Arba for another interrogation. The interrogator wanted me to repeat what I had told the second interrogator at Etzion but instead I told him I had denied all the accusations. The interrogation lasted for about 30 minutes and I was taken back to Ofer prison.

 

The following day I was taken to Ofer military court. My parents were not informed about the hearing and it was adjourned. I had about 10 appearances in the military court. At the last hearing, which was about four months after my arrest, I accepted a plea bargain of five months in prison and a fine of NIS 3,000. I was also given an additional one year in prison suspended for three years. My father objected to the high fine and managed to reduce it to NIS 2,000.

 

I was released on 10 December 2017. I arrived home with my father at around 6:30 p.m. My mother prepared a nice meal and lots of family members and friends came to our house to greet me.

 

I spent my entire prison sentence in Ofer prison. In prison I attended some classes but they were not very useful. They taught us the alphabet. My parents visited me five times in prison.