At around 2:00 a.m. I heard loud banging coming from my uncle’s house next door. Shortly afterwards I heard banging at our front door. I also heard Israeli soldiers shouting and telling us to open the door and threatening to fire live bullets if we didn’t.

 

My father opened our front door and about 30 soldiers entered our home. Then I heard them tell my father they wanted to arrest me. They also asked my father whether I had been shot and then gave my father a document saying they were going to take me to the police station in Binyamin settlement for interrogation.

 

My sisters went crazy when they heard this and my father objected and they all wanted to accompany me. The commander said girls are not allowed but they allowed my father to get into the jeep with me. Both of us sat on a seat. At the entrance to the village the jeep stopped and they told my father to get off. The jeep then drove for about 30 minutes to Binyamin police station.

 

At the police station I was examined by a doctor who filled out a form. Then I was handcuffed. I was then taken to a room where I waited until around 2:30 p.m. without food. I was then taken into an interrogation room.

 

I entered the interrogation room shivering with fear and exhaustion. The interrogator took a piece of bread out of the rubbish bin and gave it to me but I refused to eat it. He also gave me some water and I was allowed to use the toilet. He handed me a document saying I had the right to remain silent and that they allowed me to consult with a lawyer. He called a lawyer and allowed me to speak to him. The lawyer told me to be a man and not to be scared of them.

 

The interrogator introduced himself as "Fadi". He asked me whether I threw stones at soldiers and I told him I didn’t. He then asked me whether I took part in the demonstrations in Nabi Saleh and Bili’in and I told him I didn’t. He then accused me of lying and told me he had ways of knowing everything. This lasted about 10 minutes and I was then taken to see an intelligence officer.

 

The intelligence officer introduced himself as "Rafi". He was holding a taser and said something about a "cat in its mother’s ass". He clicked a button on the taser and I could see blue sparks and hear the buzzing sound of electricity. He then asked me for my father’s number. He showed me a photograph of a boy from my village and wanted me to testify against him. He told me the boy was going home because he confessed and his father was on his way to pick him up. Then he showed me a document in Hebrew and asked me to sign it but I refused.

 

At around 8:00 p.m. I was transferred to Ofer prison, near Jerusalem. The trip took a long time because the soldiers stopped on the way and bought a Pizza. We arrived at Ofer at around midnight. At Ofer I was strip searched and asked to crouch up and down while naked. I was then taken to a cell where I was with adult detainees. The juvenile section was overcrowded.

 

The following day I was taken to Ofer military court but I was never taken into the court room. A policeman called my name and told me I was going to be released. He told me I was released on bail and that my parents had to pay NIS 7,000. I was told my next hearing was scheduled on 30 December 2015. I was released on 25 November at around 10:00 p.m. My cousin was waiting for me outside prison and he took me to his house because soldiers had closed the entrance to our village. I went home the following day.