I was asleep when there was banging at our front door at around 2:30 a.m. Israeli soldiers stormed into our home and told my father they had come to deliver a summons to bring me to the police station in Ariel settlement at 10:00 a.m. Then they came into my bedroom and told me I had to show up at the police station with my father in the morning.

 

Later than morning my father and I went to the police station but they did not allow us in until 4:00 p.m. At 4:00 p.m. soldiers took me to be photographed and fingerprinted. They also took a saliva sample. I was then taken to the interrogation room. My father asked to accompany me but the interrogator did not allow him into the interrogation room. He told him he could wait at the police station.

 

The interrogator was in police uniform and spoke fluent Arabic. He told me I had the right to silence and the right to consult with a lawyer. I did not speak to a lawyer. He turned a tape recorder on and accused me of throwing stones at soldiers and of taking part in demonstrations. He also accused me of throwing a tear gas canister back at soldiers. Then he showed me a picture of someone watching a demonstration.

 

When I denied the allegations the interrogator raised his voice and became angry. He yelled at me saying Israel was a democratic state and that if I confessed to throwing stones at soldiers he was going to release me. When again I denied the accusation and denied that the photo was of me he accused me of lying. My father heard the shouting and came into the interrogation room to see what was going on. The interrogator told my father he was shouting at me for my own sake and that he was only giving me good advice.

 

My father left the room and the interrogator asked me whether I was a supporter of Real Madrid or Barcelona. I think he wanted to trick me because the boy in the picture was wearing a Barcelona T-Shirt. I told him I wasn’t a supporter of either team.

 

The interrogation lasted for about an hour. The interrogator called my father in and asked him to try to influence me to confess and that he only wanted what was best for me. My father asked me to tell the truth. I told my father I was telling the truth and that I didn’t throw stones. The interrogator then told my father they were going to transfer me to Ofer prison and told him to go home.

 

The interrogator then printed out my statement in Hebrew and asked me to sign it but I refused. I was then shackled and handcuffed and taken to a jeep. The jeep drove for a number of hours, I can’t remember how many, before stopping at Ofer prison, near Jerusalem. We arrived at around 11:00 p.m. I was handcuffed and shackled the whole time. At Ofer I was strip searched and taken into Section 13.

 

The following day I was taken to Ofer military court where I waited until around 2:00 p.m. before I was taken into court. A lawyer was there but not my parents. The military judge ordered that I pay NIS 1,000 – I don’t know if it was a fine or bail. The following day my parents paid the money and I was released on 24 August 2015, at around 8:00 p.m.