I was asleep when I suddenly woke up to the sound of loud banging at our front door. It was around 3:00 a.m. I heard my father answer the door. I didn’t want to get out of bed because I had a feeling it was Israeli soldiers come to arrest me and I was scared.

 

My mother came to my room and told me that indeed the soldiers had come to arrest me. I got up and found soldiers talking to my brother. Then they gave my father a document and told him they wanted to interrogate me at Etzion settlement about throwing stones. They allowed me to get dressed and took me to the stairwell where my mother followed me and pleaded with the soldiers not to arrest me. I was trembling with fear.

 

Then the soldiers took me outside our house where they tied my hands to the front with three plastic ties: one on each wrist and another one connecting the two. The ties were not painful. They also blindfolded me.

 

I was then led to a military jeep and made me sit on the metal floor. The jeep drove for about 15 minutes towards the nearby Israeli military base where they took me to see a doctor. The doctor removed the blindfold and examined me. When he was done I was blindfolded again and the soldiers took me to a courtyard where I sat on the ground until around 6:00 a.m.

 

At around 6:00 a.m. I was put back in a jeep where I sat on the floor and I was taken to the police station in Etzion settlement. On arrival at Etzion I was put in a courtyard where I sat on the ground until noon. I was not allowed to use the toilet or to drink water. I was then taken for interrogation.

 

The interrogator removed the blindfold but kept my ties on. He did not inform me of any rights. He accused me of throwing stones at soldiers and told me other boys testified that I was throwing stones with them. He told me it was my turn now to confess. I told him I did not throw stones at anyone. The interrogation lasted for about an hour. I was scared the whole time and in the end I confessed to throwing stones at soldiers. When the interrogation was over the interrogator called a lawyer and allowed me to speak to him. The lawyer told me not be scared and that he would see me in court.

 

The interrogator then printed out my statement in Hebrew and asked me to sign it and I did without understanding what it said. I was then photographed and fingerprinted before being strip searched and taken to a room where the ties were removed and I remained for about two hours. I was then shackled and handcuffed and taken to a troop carrier where I sat on a seat. The carrier drove for an hour to Ofer prison, near Jerusalem. At Ofer I was strip searched again and taken to Section 13.

 

The following day I was taken to the military court. My parents were not there but a lawyer was there and the hearing was adjourned. I had 10 additional hearings which my parents attended and I was allowed to speak to them. In the end I was sentenced to three months in prison and fined NIS 1,000. I was released from Ofer on 26 December 2015 which was a bit earlier than expected because of over crowding in Ofer. I left Ofer at around 5:00 p.m. and I went home by myself. In prison I studied Arabic and Mathematics.