I had taken a car to the carwash in my village at around 2:00 p.m. when I was suddenly hit from behind by an Israeli police car. Four policemen stepped out of the car and immediately started to beat me hard all over my body. One of the policemen hit me on my head with a gun.

 

A short time later military and police jeeps arrived and I was forced into the back of the police jeep. Another boy at the carwash was also detained. Inside the jeep I was handcuffed to the back with the other boy. The handcuff was tight and painful. I was also shackled and kept in the jeep for about two hours. They asked me and the other boy to crouch on the metal floor inside the jeep which was very uncomfortable. Each time I tried to stand up I was beaten hard.

 

The jeep drove for about 15 minutes to the police station inside Binyamin settlement where I was taken to a room and sat on the floor for many hours. During this time I asked for some food and water and to use the toilet but I was denied. At around 8:00 p.m. I was taken for interrogation.

 

There were two interrogators in the room. I remained handcuffed throughout the interrogation. One of them gave me a document and told me it was a legal document. I read the document quickly and it said something about consulting with a lawyer. I don't remember whether it said anything else. The document was in both Hebrew and Arabic and he asked me to sign it and I did. I did not speak to a lawyer. 

 

He immediately accused me of stealing a car and I denied the accusation.  During the interrogation the interrogator gave me another document written in Hebrew and asked me to sign it and I did out of fear because this was the first time I have been arrested and I didn’t know what to expect. After I signed it I asked the interrogator what it was about and he told me it was a confession that I had stolen a car. I told him the car belonged to me and I had no idea it was stolen. He told me it was too late because I had already confessed. He asked me for the name of another boy who was with me at the carwash but I told him I didn’t know the boy.

 

The interrogation lasted for about 30 minutes. Then they took my photograph and my fingerprints and I was taken back to the room where I remained until midnight. I again asked for some water but I was denied. At around midnight my father arrived and I was told I was going to be released but then they did not release me at the last minute and my father went back home.

 

I was then transferred to Ofer prison, near Jerusalem, in a police car. I arrived at Ofer at around 1:30 a.m. At Ofer I was strip searched and taken to Section 13.

 

The following day I was told I had a military court hearing but I was never taken to court. Instead I was released at around 12:30 after midnight on 16 April 2016. I borrowed some clothes from another prisoner because they never gave me back my own clothes. My parents were waiting for me outside Ofer and I went home with them. I was released without charge.