I had just arrived home from school with my brother at around 2:00 p.m. when a group of Israeli soldiers stormed into our house and dragged me and my brother outside without giving us a reason for their behaviour. Once outside a soldier tied my hands to the front with one plastic tie. The tie was tight. They also blindfolded me.

 

Me and my brother were then led away on foot to a nearby military watchtower on the main road. They made me sit on the ground for about 30 minutes. A soldier then asked me why I was throwing stones at soldiers. I told him I didn’t throw stones at anyone. I was then put in the back of a jeep where they made me sit on the floor. The jeep drove for a number of hours before it stopped at the Israeli police station in Binyamin settlement. By the time we arrived it was around 6:00 p.m.

 

At Binyamin I was taken to a room where I waited for about 30 minutes before I was transferred to another room where I sat on a chair and a doctor examined me. He asked me some questions about my health. At around 2:40 a.m. I was taken for interrogation.

 

The interrogator removed the tie and the blindfold. He did not inform me of my rights and immediately accused me of throwing stones at soldiers. In the beginning I denied the accusation but when he started to shout at me and made gestures as if he was going to beat me I was scared and decided to confess. I confessed to throwing stones at soldiers on one occasion. I confessed because I was scared the interrogator would beat me if I didn’t confess. The interrogation lasted for about an hour. During the interrogation the interrogator also verbally abused me and called me a "brother of a fucker" and told me I was homosexual.

 

After I confessed he showed me documents in Arabic and asked me to sign them. I read the documents and found them identical to what I had told him and then I signed them. The interrogator took me to another room where he took my photograph and my fingerprints. I remained in the room by myself until later that morning. There was a bed in the room and I managed to sleep.

 

At around noon I was shackled and handcuffed and put in the back of a troop carrier where I sat on a seat. The carrier drove for about an hour to Ofer prison, near Jerusalem. At Ofer I was strip searched and taken into Section 3.

 

During my time at Ofer I had four military court hearings which my parents attended. I was able to speak to them in court. Not much happened during the first three hearings. On the last hearing on 29 February 2016, I was sentenced to three months in prison and fined NIS 3,000. I also had a suspended sentence valid for 5 years.

 

I was released on 28 March 2016 at around 5:00 p.m. My parents were waiting for me outside prison and I went home with them. In prison I studies Arabic and mathematics.