I woke up terrified at around 1:30 a.m. when I heard the sound of banging on our front door. Then Israeli soldiers entered our house and called me into the kitchen and told the rest of my family to stay in the living room.

 

The Commander and an Israeli policeman started to question me in the kitchen and prevented my father from being present. The Commander told me to bring him my weapon but I told him I did not have any weapons. Then he told me he had information that I had bullets and said it was in my interest to hand the bullets over to him. I told him I had no idea what he was talking about.

 

Then the policeman took me outside where the soldiers were conducting a search. The policeman also asked me about the weapon and I gave him the same answer. The policeman recorded all this on a camera.

 

Then the soldiers blindfolded me and tied my hands to the front with one plastic tie which was tight. The commander said he was going to arrest me whether I told them where the weapon was or not. They did not give us any documents and did not tell my father where they were going to take me.

 

Then they took me to the back of a jeep and made me sit on the floor. The jeep drove around town and the soldiers made more arrests. Four more detainees were put in the back of the jeep and we all sat on top of each other. The jeep then drove for about five minutes to the police station in Etzion settlement.

 

On arrival at Etzion I was put in a shipping container where I sat on the floor for about 10 hours. During this time I was examined by a doctor who asked me some questions about my medical condition. When I asked for some water soldiers gave me hot water. After about 10 hours I was taken for interrogation at around noon.

 

The interrogator removed the tie and the blindfold and accused me of firing at soldiers and manufacturing weapons and of possessing bullets. He told me one of the boys in the village had confessed against me. I denied all the accusations. He interrogated me for about three hours and only half way through the interrogation did he ask me whether I wanted to consult with a lawyer. I told him there was no need for a lawyer because I did not do anything that required a lawyer.

 

When the interrogation was finished he printed out my statement in Hebrew and asked me to sign it and I did. He also asked me to sign a document which said I was informed of my right to silence and my right to consult with a lawyer.

 

Then they took my photograph and fingerprints. I was re-blindfolded and my hands were tied again. I was taken to a courtyard where I sat on the ground for another four hours or so. Then I was strip searched and taken to a cell where they removed the tie and the blindfold and I remained in the cell for about an hour.

 

After about an hour in the cell I was shackled and handcuffed and taken to a troop carrier which drove for about an hour to Ofer prison, near Jerusalem. At Ofer I was strip searched and taken to a room where I waited for about three hours before I was taken into Section 13.

 

The following morning I had a military court hearing which my lawyer attended but my parents did not because they were not notified. The hearing was adjourned. I had about 13 hearings which my parents and my lawyer attended and I was allowed to speak to them. During this time I was transferred to Megiddo prison, inside Israel, but the hearings still took place at Ofer court. The transfer back and forth was very tiring and took a long time. In the end I was sentenced to four months in prison and fined NIS 2,000. I also received addition a one-year prison sentence suspended for five years.

 

At Ofer I did not study and my parents did not visit me because they did not have a permit to visit. At Megiddo I studied and my parents visited me. I was released from Ofer on 14 April 2017.